Blue Cross/Shield ...... Chiropractors are not Physicians

[Guest guest]

A fellow DC just sent me the 2009 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Service

Benefit Plan. Under the section(#3) entitled, " How you Receive

Benefits " , it lists covered professional providers. We are no longer

in the " Physician " category along with an M.D., D.O., D.D.S., or even

a doctor of Podiatry. Instead, we have been shunted to the " Other

Covered Health Care Professionals " list. This list includes,

dietitians, nurse practitioners, audiologists, speech therapists, and

physicians assistants.

Now, this plan is in Alaska not Oregon, but I feel this effects us all

nationwide. What's next, I ask: stopping the reimbursement for

labwork, imaging, or entry-level care???? All things privileged to

licensed physicians....but what about the " other? " Getting pushed

around by these business execs who aren't getting their bonus this

year really pisses me off!

~whew~

cheers all,

jeff foster, dc

Eugene, or.