On June 30, 2026, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) expanded its PARS JSON API specification with two significant updates to board reporting: direct reporting for the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) and a new Quality Improvement credit type for the American Board of Surgery (ABS). Today, both updates are fully integrated and live across every CMEGenius-powered site. Within weeks of ACCME's launch, learners on our clients' platforms can earn ABPM and ABS Quality Improvement credits and have them reported automatically, with no configuration, no batch uploads, and no additional work required from the CME providers we serve.

What Changed at ACCME

The June 30 update expanded ACCME's board reporting capabilities in two ways.

First, ACCME added an entirely new board. CME providers can now report learner completions directly to ACCME for ABPM's Continuing Certification Program (CCP). ABPM reporting supports four Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit types: Accredited CME, Self-Assessment, Improving Health & Health Care, and Patient Safety. It covers eleven practice areas, including Addiction Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, Clinical Informatics, Disaster Medicine, Health Care Administration Leadership & Management, Lifestyle Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Public Health & General Preventive Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Second, ACCME introduced a new credit type for ABS Continuous Certification reporting: Quality Improvement. It joins the existing Accredited CME and Self-Assessment credit types already available for surgeons.

What This Means for CMEGenius Clients and Their Learners

If your organization runs its CME program on CMEGenius, there is nothing for you to do. Both updates are already active on your site.

Physicians in preventive medicine specialties, from clinical informaticists to occupational medicine practitioners to public health physicians, can now satisfy their CCP requirements through activities completed on your platform, with completions flowing directly to ACCME on their behalf. Surgeons pursuing Quality Improvement credit toward ABS Continuous Certification benefit the same way, immediately.

For accreditation managers and program administrators, this means your board reporting stays current without a project plan, a support ticket, or a manual upload. When your learners complete an eligible activity and opt in to board reporting, CMEGenius handles the rest.

Why We Can Move This Fast

Speed like this is not an accident. It is the direct result of two things: how CMEGenius is built, and how we operate as a partner.

CMEGenius integrates directly with ACCME's modern JSON APIs for learner completion reporting through PARS. Because credits flow to certifying boards automatically as learners complete activities, rather than through periodic manual batch uploads, supporting a new board or credit type is a matter of extending a live integration, not standing up a new process. When ACCME publishes a specification change, our platform architecture is already positioned to absorb it.

Just as important, we do not wait for clients to ask. Our team monitors ACCME's API specifications and roadmap proactively, so we know what is coming before it arrives and can ship support as soon as ACCME launches changes. Staying current with ACCME is not a feature we built once; it is an ongoing commitment, and this announcement is simply the latest example of what that commitment looks like in practice.

That is what we believe a technology partner should be for CME providers: a team that treats your obligations as our engineering roadmap.

Modernize Your CME Reporting

If your organization is still managing board reporting through spreadsheets, batch files, or a platform that lags behind ACCME's changes, we would welcome the conversation. Contact the CMEGenius team to learn how direct PARS integration can keep your reporting automatic, and your learners' credits exactly where they need to be.

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If you are using another LMS to manage your CME, consider talking to one of our experts to learn how these updates affect your organization and what your LMS should support.

We do not represent the ACCME and make no claims to guarantee compliance or accreditation. Please see ACCME guidelines or contact the ACCME for additional details for your organizations individual authority to offer credits under this new guidance