Healthcare Providers are regulated by the fact that they need to have a certain eduction, pass Board Examination, get licensed and practice within their scope and use standard of care. So I don’t see this as needed.
People who are practicing without a healthcare education, passing Board Examination and getting licensed should not be permitted to practice things like homeopathy or other natural healing. People doing these things without the proper education and licensing etc are putting the public at risk. It is how people are harmed.
I would support making sure State Scope of Practice and Insurance Policy should not limit providers education and practice
States, Boards etc are not limiting the healthcare providers by making scopes of practice less than the education earned. State Scopes of Practice and Insurance policies including Medicare and Medicaid should not be able to restrict the scope of practice of a provider. For example, Chiropractic Physicians education and training is far beyond what Medicare reimburses providers and therefore covers for patients. In addition, multiple States are guilty of limiting the scope of practice of Chiropractic Physicians by the wording in the scope of practice. Some of these have underlying motives to limit the scope by competitors in the AMA circle and others have competitive motives internally from Chiropractors who do not want to practice to their full scope. The ability to set a business model to their desired scope does not prevent them from referring to other Chiropractic Physicians that do practice that full scope or other specialists. Therefore, they should not be limiting the scope of well trained intelligent providers and therefore preventing the public access to these Chiropractic Physician specialists.
Scopes of practice should be required to encompass the full education and CEU that providers meet. Such examples are the legislation in Ohio by Governor Kasich and the legislation in New Mexico by the Advanced Practice New Mexico Keeps Making Headlines | Dynamic Chiropractic and Chicago Scope of Practice. In addition, all States should be required to honor the practice of Acupuncture Certification for Chiropractic Physicians.
In addition, schools that are lead or encompass Medical programs for other specialties may not diminish the scope of practice for other providers such as Chiropractic Physicians in an attempt to limit the competition.
Further the Allopathic Community should be required to refer patients to Functional Medicine Chiropractic Physicians and Naturopathic Doctors rather than trying to take over the specialty. They have the ability to refer and should be using it for the benefit of the patient. They should not pretend to be trained in all aspects of healthcare but instead refer to those who are trained. This does happen already the other way. There is lasting impact of professional discrimatory practices as seen in Wilk vs. AMA. That needs to be defeated for the health of our Country and best practices for patients. Assuming an MD knows everything should not be the norm. They are trained and needed for emergency care and surgical care. They need to refer out to the specialists who are wellness and functional specialists.