tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post2063999756906400367..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: JAMA: The Certification Fees and Finances of US Medical Specialty BoardsDrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-67509595957781407022017-08-02T16:20:05.284-05:002017-08-02T16:20:05.284-05:00With money hidden under the floorboards like that,...With money hidden under the floorboards like that, is it any wonder the credentialing authority of the ABMS was codified in the ACA? Regulatory capture that goes hand in hand with the deaf, dumb and blind behavior of the DOJ and IRS. More than a provincial malady of the medical profession, it bears witness to a moribund representative democracy at the federal level. As in Oklahoma, the fight W.O.R.M.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-8955298280689918852017-08-01T16:56:25.586-05:002017-08-01T16:56:25.586-05:00Lynn Langdon, former COO and boss of Ariel Benjami...Lynn Langdon, former COO and boss of Ariel Benjamin Mannes (director of ABIM's bureau investigations) are you (or he) still there getting paid? They never formally said you left? Actually they never formally tell us anything except what the ABMS 'ministry of propaganda' wants to make us believe. Highly paid contractors for life? Ships who carry too heavy a load that can never find safe harbor?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-61943672980964345622017-08-01T16:13:53.962-05:002017-08-01T16:13:53.962-05:00Whatever the political or financial weather, this ...Whatever the political or financial weather, this ABMS bureaucratic nightmare and mess continues with a tour de force big bang right in front of us for all to see. It's a very loud educational Ponzi scheme and cover-up of the first magnitude; and the quick turnaround in physician and public coverage at the grassroots level is startling. <br /><br />It is amazing to me that the DOJ is not Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-71618242087597409472017-08-01T16:11:39.262-05:002017-08-01T16:11:39.262-05:00They really wanted it all hidden at the ABMS and A...They really wanted it all hidden at the ABMS and ABIM. By the way, did anyone know that the ABIM is accountable to the ABMS. In fact the ABMS has the power and authority and the moral obligation to put a member board on probation when they act so unethically as the ABIM has obviously done.<br /><br />The ABIM, their partners at the ABMS, their attorneys and profiteering affiliate partners and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-52799345103488681912017-08-01T16:08:03.031-05:002017-08-01T16:08:03.031-05:00The financial revelations of how much profit they ...The financial revelations of how much profit they actually are making and distributing to the executives adds even more fuel to this outrageous bonfire of illegitimate payouts to each other and having the boards approve. Add up the executive compensation over the past 10 years of the just the CEO's alone.<br /><br />And tucked away in court documents such as ABIM v. Sarah von Muller v ABIM, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-86479766284939979732017-08-01T16:03:20.676-05:002017-08-01T16:03:20.676-05:00Where did all that hidden money go?
Until a shor...Where did all that hidden money go? <br /><br />Until a short while ago it was all hidden. We did not even know about the ABIM Foundation and all the money they stashed away from over-billing physicians on their certification fees. How much was it really they deposited in their big piggy bank? 70 million? Nobody really knows. Nobody knows how much they may have misappropriated for exiting CEO'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com