Chiropractors lobbying for Medicare coverage expansion

An American Chiropractic Association official has urged chiropractors to ask three Senators to include a pro-chiropractic amendment if a Senate Medicare prescription drug bill comes up for a vote. Current law covers ‘manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation’. The proposed amendment parallels the Chiropractic Patients’ Freedom of Choice Act of 2001. This would add coverage for ‘all related diagnostic and therapeutic services’, which would include physical therapy, X-rays, other imaging procedures, and laboratory testing. Many chiropractors – probably a majority – provide such services inappropriately.

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