This deep dive examines EBAS, a for-profit disciplinary assessment company wholly owned by the NBCE, and raises serious concerns about transparency, conflicts of interest, and regulatory capture. Licensees ordered into EBAS remediation may pay repeated fees, face anonymous graders, and receive no appeal rights. The transcript highlights contradictions between NBCE tax filings and audited reports, EBAS’s nearly $5 million debt to NBCE, and the role of figures such as Dr. Jason Jaeger. It argues that the proposed NBCE/FCLB merger could consolidate exams, discipline, continuing education, specialty recognition, and regulatory reporting into one private monopoly.
