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The New York State Chiropractic Association (NYSCA) is pleased to announce that the 2025 election period for NYSCA Officers and Directors is now officially open. Voting will be conducted online through AssociationVoting.com, and ballots will remain open from May 1 through May 15, 2025.

We’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the NYSCA members who joined us for our virtual membership meeting last night! It was great to connect, share updates, and hear from so many of you who continue to support and strengthen our chiropractic community across New York State.

For well over a year, the NYSCA Insurance Committee (the NIC) has reported on an antitrust class action lawsuit due to the overlap of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans. The settlement has been approved, including $2.8 Billion in a settlement fund. It is important to note the settlement also includes new requirements on how BCBS processes claims, communicates, and makes payments to healthcare providers. This involves all BCBS plans nationwide. Any health care services rendered over the past 15+ years are eligible to be part of this settlement.

For more information, including how to file a claim and an upcoming webinar on Friday, May 2, 2025, please click the link below:

Beginning 5/19/2025, there is a new mailing address for Medicare Part B claim submitters in Connecticut and New York (Upstate Counties and Queens). 

In an exciting development for the profession, NYSCA President Dr. Anthony Palumbo has announced the creation of a new NYSCA Committee on Chiropractic Science, Philosophy, and Art. After his term as President concludes on May 31, 2025, Dr. Palumbo will chair this committee with the goal of fostering collaborative dialogue among chiropractors and chiropractic students of all backgrounds and alma maters.

More than 275 attendees hailing from ten different states, along with fifty different exhibitors and event sponsors, helped raise the attendance bar to new heights at the NYSCA 2025 Spring Convention, held March 28-30 at Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Uncasville, CT.

Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2021 amended Social Services Law § 413 to require additional training to include protocols to reduce implicit bias in decision-making processes, strategies for identifying adverse childhood experiences, and guidelines to assist in recognizing signs of abuse or maltreatment while interacting virtually within the New York State Mandated Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Maltreatment/Neglect coursework. This law requires that mandated reporters (which includes New York State Chiropractors), including those who have previously undergone the current training, complete the updated training curriculum by April 1, 2025.

On Monday, March 24th, the NYS Workers' Compensation Board posted notice regarding changes to durable medical equipment (DME) prior authorization requests (PARs), which also impacts all draft PARs (whether from providers, their delegates, or responses from payer reviewers). 

[Updated March 21, 2025] All entities created in the United States — including those previously known as “domestic reporting companies” — and their beneficial owners are now exempt from the requirement to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN. Existing foreign companies that must report their beneficial ownership information have at least an additional 30 days from the date of publication of the interim final rule. For more information, see press release and alert.

FinCEN 03/21/25 Update

https://pacex.fclb.org

Last week Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and Univera Healthcare sent letters to their Medicare Advantage members receiving chiropractic care. The NYSCA Insurance Committee (NIC) has spoken with numerous NYSCA doctors regarding this notice and the impact on their practices.

The Assembly and Senate have released their one-house budget proposals. Each house will now pass a resolution, which will memorialize their one-house budget proposals. These proposals were compiled after the Assembly and Senate held weeks of joint budget hearings and scores of meetings with a variety of stakeholders, who weighed in on the proposals contained in the Governor’s proposed budget. Each one-house budget accepts, rejects or modifies the Governor’s budget proposals that were released in January and adds priority issues for each respective house.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Roanoke, VA – [March 11, 2025] – Foot Levelers, the world’s leading provider of custom-made orthotics, is proud to sponsor the 2025 Foot Levelers Blue Ridge Marathon, America’s Toughest Road Race. Known for its grueling elevation changes and demanding course, the event aligns perfectly with Foot Levelers commitment to whole-body health, endurance, and peak performance.

A lot has changed since the 1960’s.  One thing that hasn’t changed is the chiropractic scope of practice, which is why this is one of the  legislative priorities for the New York State Chiropractic Association on behalf of the chiropractic profession. 

On the Agenda, the official publication of the New York State Chiropractic Association (NYSCA), is published quarterly. It is designed to provide information about the Chiropractic profession and NYSCA activities and initiatives. 

Beneficial ownership reporting requirements are back in effect, with a new deadline of March 21, 2025 for most companies. For more info, see the FinCEN Notice. More information is available at https://www.fincen.gov/boi.

Immediate release: Roanoke, VA (February20,2025) — Foot Levelers, the world leader in hand-crafted custom orthotics, wants to reiterate its commitment to philanthropic support of the chiropractic profession in its 2024 Giving Back Annual Report.

Beneficial ownership reporting requirements are back in effect, with a new deadline of March 21, 2025 for most companies. FinCEN will assess its options for further modifying deadlines. For more info, see notice linked below.

FinCEN Notice