ICBC’s April 12 webinar for Acupuncturists on the new Enhanced Care programme was chock full of essential information for anyone direct billing to ICBC! If you were unable to attend, a recording of the webinar will be available on the ICBC Acupuncturists business partner page after April 20.   Highlights from the webinar:   For MVAs on or after May 1, AND an initial treatment that is outside of the Early Access Period (EAP = within 12 weeks of the date of the accident), APPROVAL FOR

Register for ICBC’s free webinar to learn more about Enhanced Care and how it affects your practice and patients! Read the latest ICBC newsletter for information on free webinars and up-to-date information on Enhanced Care.   Highlights include: Enhanced Care comes into effect on May 1st, 2021. To help you prepare for the changes coming under Enhanced Care, review the checklist in the ICBC April newsletter. ICBC is hosting free provider-specific webinars to provide discipline-specific information on Enhanced Care.  The session specifically for acupuncturists will be

The Acupuncture and TCM profession are currently under the microscope due to the attention brought about by COVID-19, the ban on PIT and the cancellation of the Chinese PCE.  ATCMA members and fellow practitioners in BC are reminded to be sure that we are all practicing within our scope and following CTCMA rules.  Other allied health professions have been targeted for these issues, and we need to learn from their mistakes.  In particular, please ensure that you are:   1) practicing within

Members treating ICBC patients!  Be sure to read the latest ICBC newsletter and announcements for up-to-date information on rates and treatment plans.   Highlights include: Coverage rates will increase by $1 per session in April. A new ICBC web page with guidance on writing Treatment Plans (the replacement for extension requests). ICBC is offering free webinars to help practitioners adapt to the changes in enhanced care and treatment plans. The session specifically for acupuncturists will be held on April 12. Sign-up information is available within

Date : February 7, 2021 (Sunday)   10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: ICBC Presentation (1 CEU) 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: AGM (1 CEU)   Platform: Zoom   Registration deadline: 3:00 pm on Friday, February 5, 2021   Fees: Attendance is free. Only ATCMA members in good standing are permitted to attend. You may attend the seminar only, the AGM only, or both, but you will only receive CEUs for the portion of the meeting that you attend.   Please note: 24 hours is required to process your registration. If you do not

Please scroll down for Chinese translation; 请下滑查看中文翻译 Dear Members,   We have heard from several members that they feel our previous message presented information that was biased in favour of the current ATMCA board of directors.  This was not our intention.  Our goal was to answer questions that we have received from members between Dec 5 and 12 and explain what the ATCMA staff is working on in relation to those questions.   There was a concern that our original communication highlighted board accomplishments, including those

Please scroll down for Chinese translation; 请下滑来查看中文翻译   Per Monday’s post, we attended a MOH meeting on modernizing the provincial health profession regulatory framework this morning. The session was somewhat useful, but there are a lot of unanswered  questions.  They basically highlighted key  changes that were made to the Committee proposal from the previous  iteration in Nov 2019 to the final recommendations made on Aug 27. Key takeaways from the session There was no firm answer on our Scope Modernization issue.  This is why we

Friendly reminder!  Please continue to gather signatures for the ATCMA’s petition calling on the BC government to direct the Ministry of Health to approve our long-overdue scope update.  The first round of almost 1,000 signatures was submitted to the Legislature in August – THANK YOU to everyone who worked hard to gather signatures!  There is still work to be done.  We need our scope updated BEFORE the amalgamation of regulatory colleges takes place, or we run the risk of carrying

July 31st, 2020 Dear Member, We’d like to drive business your way! Many front line healthcare workers are having difficulty finding Acupuncturists and TCM Practitioners or Doctors who will treat them because they may be working directly with or near COVID patients. It turns out that there is a specific BC Health Care Worker COVID-19 Exposures Risk Assessment Tool that HCW patients can use to self-assess, which helps clarify the conditions under which a HCW is assessed as “no risk” and therefore eligible