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.

[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.

It is important for our members to be aware of items that might affect your practices. It has come to our attention that some offices that use X-ray equipment may receive an unexpected bill from the New York State Department of Health(NYS DOH). The department has not billed X-ray equipment fees for four years. Note the NYS DOH had hired a new group to improve the billing and payment process which resulted in this error.

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

Clive, Iowa – February 4, 2025 – NCMIC announces the retirement of Mike Whitmer, Vice President of Corporate Relations, effective April 4, 2025. With over 30 years of business experience, Mike has been an integral part of NCMIC since joining the company in 2001.

Governance elections for the NYSCA Officers and Regional Directors are beginning to ramp up.  Members interested in campaigning for a position on the NYSCA Executive Board or Board of Directors should start planning now. 

The NYSCA offers its members opportunities to serve in a volunteer capacity on a variety of committees and workgroups for the benefit of the profession in New York State.

At the ChiroCongress annual meeting, held on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Colorado, Dr. Gerald Stevens was elected as 2nd Vice President of the Congress of Chiropractic State Associations.  Dr. Stevens also continues to serve as a member of the ChiroCongress Cares Board and on the NYSCA Executive Board as the NYSCA Treasurer. 

Thank you to those who attended our recent CMS-1500 webinar for health care providers, highlighting that, beginning August 1, 2025, the Board will require health care providers to contract with an electronic submission partner to submit the CMS-1500 universal medical billing form electronically on their behalf. 

Today, Governor Kathy Hochul delivered her budget address outlining her priorities for her 2025 – 2026 proposed budget. Building on the themes from her State of the State address last week, she continued to focus on making New York a more affordable place to live. She also highlighted a line from her State of the State last week that “Your Family is My Fight.”

Today, Governor Kathy Hochul delivered her fourth State of the State address from the Hart Theater at the Egg in Albany. During the State of the State, the Governor mainly focused on making New York a more affordable place to live. The speech contained numerous policy proposals, and the Governor also released a briefing book containing over 200 distinct proposals organized in fifteen main topics areas, including:  supporting families, helping children thrive, public safety, economic development, housing, health, and sustainability.  We are reviewing this briefing book and will send along proposals of interest.

If you participate with UnitedHealthcare / Optum you may have received notice of the change in the aforementioned prior authorization program.  Based upon the volume of calls, texts, and emails received by the NYSCA Insurance Committee (NIC), there has been several interpretations of the information published by UHC. For more information please access the following link:

UnitedHealthcare Updates