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The Spinal Chat – A Service of the Pennsylvania Chiropractic AssociationWelcome to The Spinal Chat, the official podcast of the Pennsylvania Chiropractic Association (PCA), your front-row seat to everything shaping Pennsylvania’s $800 million chiropractic industry.Each…
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August President’s Address: A PCA Town Hall with Dr. Kris Arnold and Mike Barba (opens the original)
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August President’s Address: A PCA Town Hall with Dr. Kris Arnold and Mike Barba In this President’s Update from The Spinal Chat Podcast, PCA President Dr. Kris Arnold and Executive Director Mike Barba discuss the issues directly affecting your practice and the future of chiropractic in Pennsylvania. The urgent Senate push for HB 1106. Scope modernization through SB 1330. Declining insurance reimbursement, denials, and prior authorization. PCA’s meetings with Highmark and other insurers. Billing
PCA Deep Dive: When the Evidence Changes, Rethinking Spine Injections for Chronic Pain (opens the original)
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PCA Deep Dive: When the Evidence Changes, Rethinking Spine Injections for Chronic Pain The Spinal Chat Podcast: PCA Deep Dive Series examines 2025 BMJ evidence on routine interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer spine pain and asks: When the evidence changes, should the way we deliver and pay for care change with it? A major BMJ systematic review and network meta-analysis included 132 eligible studies, with 81 randomized trials and 7,977 patients contributing to the quantitative analysis
PCA Deep Dive: Medicare Stuck in 1972—The Updated Case for Chiropractic Modernization (opens the original)
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PCA Deep Dive: Medicare Stuck in 1972—The Updated Case for Chiropractic Modernization This episode examines H.R. 539 and S. 106, the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act, and the limitations of Medicare’s current chiropractic coverage policy. Medicare generally covers spinal manipulation but does not reimburse doctors of chiropractic for many evaluation, diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic services they may be authorized to provide under state law. H.R. 539 and S. 106 would expand p
PCA Deep Dive:When Innovation Meets Coverage Rules; P-Stim, TENS, and Coding Integrity (opens the original)
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When Innovation Meets Coverage Rules: P-Stim, TENS, and Coding Integrity Episode Summary In this Deep Dive, we examine the May 2026 P-Stim billing issue and what chiropractic practices should learn from it. This episode is not an indictment of electrical stimulation, TENS, ancillary services, cash-based care, vendors, or innovation. The issue is narrower: the billing code must match the service performed. Electrical stimulation has helped many patients and remains an important conservative care
PCA June President’s Address: Insurance Updates, Sports Chiropractic Progress, and University Partnerships (opens the original)
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PCA June President’s Address: Insurance Updates, Sports Chiropractic Progress, and University Partnerships In this June President’s Address on Spinal Chat, Pennsylvania Chiropractic Association President Dr. Kris Arnold shares updates on insurance and advocacy efforts, sports chiropractic, and university relationships. He reports that Highmark’s newly rejected codes are not chiropractic-specific, while UPMC has not clarified its denied code set, and he urges precise billing and coding. He notes
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