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Heated committee hearing on chiropractic prescriptive authority draws dozens of witnesses
Summary
House Bill 929 would create an optional prescriptive-authority endorsement for doctors of chiropractic to prescribe a limited, noncontrolled formulary; proponents said it would improve same-day musculoskeletal care, while physicians, medical associations and many chiropractors opposed the bill over safety, training and oversight concerns.
Representative Greg Oblander introduced House Bill 929 to create an endorsement that would allow doctors of chiropractic who meet board-defined training and continuing-education requirements to prescribe a narrow formulary of noncontrolled medicines for diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of musculoskeletal conditions.
The sponsor said the endorsement would be optional and asserted the intent is to give chiropractors additional treatment tools for short-term symptom relief while patients receive conservative care: “This is a % optional to any doctor of chiropractic in the state,” Oblander said. He described outreach including letters of support from a range of clinicians and stakeholders and emphasized clinical training chiropractors receive in anatomy,…
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