National Medicare Campaign Launches
Today, ACA launches a major grassroots campaign to enact federal legislation that would achieve full physician status for DCs in Medicare. This initiative would significantly improve the health and wellness of our nation’s aging population – and your support is urgently needed.
The National Medicare Equality Petition will raise awareness of how the current Medicare system shortchanges seniors who want and need the essential services provided by doctors of chiropractic (DCs) to stay healthy, pain free and mobile.
As you know, the federal government continues to rely on an antiquated statute that discriminates against Medicare’s chiropractic patients by not covering medically necessary and mandated services delivered by chiropractic physicians. This injustice needs to stop.
| WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: |
1. Ask your patients and supporters to visit www.acatoday.org/
2. As an alternative, you will also find a link to a paper petition that you can print out, have patients sign, and fax or mail back to ACA. To comply with HIPAA regulations, you will need to have your patients complete and sign the petition, then you will need to make three copies: one for your patient to keep, one to put into his or her patient record and one to mail or fax back to ACA at 1701 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22209 or 703-243-2593.
3. This will be an ongoing campaign. Please continue to distribute the petition and collect the requested information until instructed otherwise by ACA.
Look for more information on the campaign as it develops in future issues of ACA Connects, the association’s bi-weekly e-newsletter, ACA News and other special alert bulletins. You can also follow the petition on Facebook, or on Twitter andInstagram using the hashtag #MedicareEquality.
