Abdul Moiz Hafiz, MD, was flabbergasted when he received a phone call from his institution’s credentialing office telling him that he was not certified for interventional cardiology ― even though he had passed that exam in 2016.
Hafiz, who directs the Advanced Structural Heart Disease Program at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, phoned the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), where he learned that to restore his credentials, he would need to pay $1225 in maintenance of certification (MOC) fees.
Like Hafiz, many physicians have been dismayed to learn that the ABIM is now listing as “not certified” physicians who have passed board exams but have not paid annual MOC fees of $220 per year for the first certificate and $120 for each additional certificate.