ACA Radio

Recognizing the compelling need to adjust to ongoing changes in the nation's health delivery system and to deliver a set of tangible benefits to ACA members, under the leadership of ACA's Board Executive Committee and Dr. Ray Tuck, Chair of ACA's Finance and Strategic Planning committees, ACA has kicked off a comprehensive strategic planning exercise to review all aspects of the structure of operations and benefits. Dr. David Herd and Dr. Ray Tuck are here to explain how this future-oriented, ongoing planning exercise will bring dynamic and positive change to the ways in which ACA serves its members.

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has launched a national grassroots effort to eliminate a blatantly anti-competitive provision of Medicare law that arbitrarily limits reimbursement for medically necessary services delivered by doctors of chiropractic (DCs). The statutory change ACA seeks would define DCs as “physicians” under Section 1861 of the Social Security Act for the provisioning of any existing Medicare covered service that falls within the scope of practice of an individual DC as defined by their applicable state law.The centerpiece of ACA’s campaign will focus on generating a robust level of patient grassroots support aimed at Congress that seeks to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have full access to a broader range of covered services provided by chiropractic physicians than current law permits.