ABMS verification

Board certification status, specialty, MOC participation, expiration.

Every 7 days Primary source — no aggregator Authority site

Issuing authority: American Board of Medical Specialties

What we verify

Certification status (Certified, Not Certified, Expired)

Specialty and subspecialty

Initial certification and most recent recertification dates

MOC (Maintenance of Certification) participation

Time-limited vs lifetime certification flag

Verification rules

01
Status must be 'Certified' and within validity window.
02
MOC participation lapses surface as Material if the certification is time-limited.
03
Subspecialty claims require a matching ABMS record on the same NPI.

Example evidence

Stored alongside the credential with source URL, raw payload hash, and timestamp. Names and IDs below are illustrative.

Verified payload (excerpt)

board

American Board of Internal Medicine

specialty

Internal Medicine

status

Certified

initial_certification

2014-10-22

moc_participation

Meeting requirements

valid_through

2034-12-31

Refresh cadence

Every 7 days. ABMS does not publish a change feed, so weekly polling is the published-recommended cadence.

Source-down handling

If ABMS returns no record, AOA is queried as a fallback for osteopathic providers. If both miss, the credential is marked unverified.