(From the ACA “Week in Review” of July 22, 2010) The National Association of Chiropractic Attorneys (NACA) has issued a proclamation recognizing “the historic and profoundly positive legal ramifications for the chiropractic profession and the patient community it serves in Section 2706, ‘Non-Discrimination in Health Care,’ recently enacted as part of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
Members are expressing concerns that SB 642 applies to them in the advertising of pain management or pain relief. SB 642 does not apply to chiropractic physicians or licensed massage therapists or their advertising pain management or relief.
Please remember that Florida Statute 456.035 requires all D.C.s, CCPAs and RCAs to update changes of practice address with the Board of Chiropractic Medicine. Also, Board of Chiropractic Medicine Rule 64B2-16.0075(3)(a) allows the board fine D.C.s, CCPAs and RCAs $500 for failure to update their addresses. A change of address must include your name, license number and both old and new addresses.
You must register your fictitious name - - it’s easy. You may end up paying a PIP insurer’s attorney’s fees and court costs for failing to register the fictitious name under which you practice.
The FCA, as a service to our members, would like to report recent clarification by the Board of Chiropractic Medicine at its April 18 meeting relating to DC’s employed as medical directors of NON-DOCTOR OWNED PIP CLINICS (termed as “licensed clinics” in the statutory language below).
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