We believe that all membership is local. We recognize that like the federal government, the ACA, if we aren't careful, can get caught up in our own importance and grand efforts and lose focus on the doctors who make our association strong. The leadership of the ACA doesn't intend to let this happen. In an editorial, Sage traces the recent evolution of fraud and abuse law as the health care system has changed and offers common sense advice to physicians. The specialty of risk management is well-known outside of the chiropractic profession.
Many businesses have someone or a specific department working in the area of risk management.
In the chiropractic profession, risk management has slowly and quietly come into greater light. That is changing now, not so much from a higher incidence of malpractice, but rather because of the creation of laws and the increasing preponderance of lawsuits that deal with sexual abuse and discrimination in the workplace. His credentials appear impeccable. You hire him as a massage therapist for your practice. The patients like him and he thrives.