Arlington, Va. - At the urging of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) on Jan. 27 introduced H.R. 542, "The National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015," in the U.S. House of Representatives. If passed, the...
ACA News Releases
ACA Names Richard Miller as Acting Executive Vice President
Arlington, Va. – The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has appointed Richard (Rick) Miller, a long-time political consultant to ACA and the Association’s former vice president of government relations, to serve as acting executive vice president (EVP), replacing James Potter. “Rick...
Updated Clinical Practice Guideline Issued on Chiropractic Care for Low-Back Pain
Arlington, Va. - The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), the official scientific journal of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), published an update to a previously issued evidence-based clinical practice guideline on chiropractic management of low-back pain (LBP). The...
ACA Releases New Resources to Assist Chiropractic Physicians With Proper Implementation of PQRS Reporting
Arlington, Va. - The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has debuted new resources to assist doctors of chiropractic (DCs) with proper implementation of Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). These materials will enable DCs to better understand payment adjustments and the new...
ACA Statement on NIH Expert Panel Final Report on Use of Opioids for Chronic Pain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2015 Arlington, Va. - American Chiropractic Association (ACA) President Anthony Hamm, DC, issued the following comment today on a new report released by an independent National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel about the need for...
ACA Presses HHS to Aggressively Enforce Provider Non-Discrimination Law
Arlington, Va. — The American Chiropractic Association (ACA), in comments submitted today to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), strongly defends provider non-discrimination language included in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as essential to...
ACA Vows Continued Work with HHS During Leadership Transition
Arlington, Va.—Following the resignation of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) today announced it will continue its efforts, without hesitation, to ensure doctors of chiropractic (DCs) and their patients are...
ACA Presses HHS on Non-Discrimination Enforcement
Arlington, Va. — The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) in an Oct. 19 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius raises serious concerns regarding the Department’s implementation of a key provider non-discrimination provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)....
Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform Law
ACA Will Continue to Fight for Patient Access to Chiropractic as Law is Fully Implemented Arlington, Va. — On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a controversial 5 to 4 decision, declared the Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
ACA Reaffirms Fight Against Provider Discrimination Following AMA Vote
Arlington, Va. — The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) today reaffirmed its commitment to fighting provider discrimination, responding to a recent decision by the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates to initiate a lobbying effort against Section 2706, the provider...
