DC: Why should you be elected to the NCMIC board of directors?
Dr. Grossman: My presence on the NCMIC Board of Directors would add a fresh perspective to the established leadership. It would lend balance to important issues and offer true representation from the field practitioner and policyholder, whose views are seemingly often-times neglected. Unlike any other members or candidates, I have no vested interests that would conflict with sound decision making and have had no prior commitments to any faction or political group.
DC: If elected what changes would you implement in NCMIC?
Dr. Grossman: If elected, I would offer the following suggestions for consideration by NCMIC as changes that would reflect the best interests of both the company and the policyholder.
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
On Feb. 1, 2024, two more legislators – John R. Carter (R-Texas) and Robert “Bob” Good (R-Va.) – co-sponsored the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2023, bringing the co-sponsor total to 155, two more than the total achieved over the entire two-year congressional cycle in which identical legislation last appeared (2021-22).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
