Health Plans
Your efforts to improve quality of care can be supported by aligning with organizations that use strategies complementary to yours. Recognition, reward and bonus programs can be strengthened when tied to strategies that reinforce what it means to be a physician.
- How ABIM and Health Plans Can Work Together to Improve Quality of Care
- Learn About ABIM Maintenance of Certification
- How to Use ABIM PIMs in Your Organization
- Contact ABIM to Align Board Certification With Your Quality Improvement Efforts
How ABIM and Health Plans Can Work Together to Improve Quality of Care
ABIM's Maintenance of Certification program is able to align an internist's or subspecialist's professional commitment to improving quality with incentive and recognition programs offered by many health care organizations. A growing number of health plans are now rewarding internists and subspecialists for their active participation in Maintenance of Certification by offering:
- Financial rewards in pay-for-performance programs
- Recognition in online provider directories
- Inclusion in quality networks
These arrangements are helping your physician providers reduce redundancy of data collection and measurement.
TopLearn About ABIM Maintenance of Certification
For more than 70 years, ABIM Certification has been an objective and rigorous standard to assess the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for the practice of internal medicine and its 17 subspecialties.
Through ABIM's Maintenance of Certification program, physicians demonstrate ongoing competence in the six areas that the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has established as the foundation for excellence in the practice of medicine:
- Patient care
- Medical knowledge
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Professionalism
- Systems-based practice
How to Use ABIM PIMs in Your Organization
The ABIM's PIMsmPractice Improvement Module requires physicians to measure the quality of care they deliver, and to evaluate the practice systems infrastructure that supports their efforts to deliver high quality care.
Through the use of PIMs, physicians recognize that the problems they have to solve require improvements to the systems and processes through which care is delivered.
Your organization will benefit as physicians improve systems and processes, they change practice which leads to sustainable improvements in care.
To learn more information about individual PIMs, view PIM demonstrations or review PIM options.
TopContact ABIM to Align Board Certification With Your Quality Improvement Efforts
For more information on how to align Board Certification with your quality improvement efforts, call 1-800-441-ABIM, ext. 3567 or send an e-mail to QualityImprovement@abim.org.
