Bill > HB0029

This bill requires health insurance entities, which are defined as organizations that provide health insurance, to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as other physicians for the same services, provided those services are listed in a nationally recognized code book like the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code book. This means that insurers cannot use different payment methods or amounts for chiropractic services compared to other medical services when they are coded the same way, and they cannot create special chiropractic-only codes to pay less. However, this rule does not prevent insurers from using national uniform relative value units (RVUs), which are standardized measures of the resources needed for a service, and it does not apply to government programs like TennCare or CoverKids. The bill also updates the terminology in existing law to refer to "chiropractic physician" instead of "chiropractor" and will take effect on January 1, 2027.