KCA NEWS FLASH
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Board of Healing Arts Votes Unanimously to Reconsider
“Chiropractic Physician” Issue.
After receiving a second letter from the KCA explaining that the Board’s
August, 2008 decision to disallow the use of “chiropractic physician” in
Kansas was in grave error, and that legal action might be necessary to
resolve the issue, the Board of Healing Arts members all voted to put
the issue back on its August, 2009 meeting agenda. KCA members and staff
expect to be heard again at that meeting on the importance of this
decision to the chiropractic profession and to its patients around the
state.
Faced with a 12-3 Board vote last August against the use of the term,
KCA went to work researching the issue and made a 45-minute presentation
to the Board in April, explaining that there is no evidence of confusion
on the part of the public about the difference between a chiropractic
physician and a medical doctor. In addition, KCA had found that the
legal analysis presented last year to the Board needed to be updated
given statutory changes that had occurred. At the end of this
presentation the Board voted 7-7 on a motion to reconsider the issue – a
moral victory for KCA, but not enough to change the state policy back to
where it had been.
KCA then delivered another letter to the Board outlining its arguments
again: 1) no harm to the public, 2) risk of adverse insurance company
reactions, 3) possible loss ofconfidence through public perception of
the chiropractic profession, and 4) the need for updated legal analysis.
A motion was then planned for the June 12 Board meeting to bring the
issue for a re-vote by a member who had not been present at the previous
Board meeting, but an agreement was reached among members to do a full
reconsideration of the issue at the Board’s next meeting in August.
While this progress has been slow, KCA leadership is convinced that we
will prevail in our campaign to reinstate the use of the “chiropractic
physician” terminology in Kansas. We are working very hard to avoid
legal action in this situation. More coming in August!
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Board of Healing Arts Rescinds “Chiropractic
Physician” Policy.
According to members of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, the
long-standing Board resolution allowing doctors of chiropractic in
Kansas to use the term “chiropractic physician” has been rescinded.
Although the majority of Board members initially opposed changing the
current policy at their meeting Saturday, legal advice submitted by the
agency staff convinced members that the Board was open to legal
liability with the current policy. Use of the term in Kansas has been a
subject of debate and litigation for years, with a court order against
the use of the term coming in 1992. The current Board resolution
allowing use was established in 1995.
The KCA and its legal counsel were not informed of this action before it
occurred and did not have an opportunity to comment.
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