The Arizona Chiropractic Society (ACS) is a non-profit state association dedicated to the advancement of chiropractic. ACS believes in tolerance and endorses live and let live amongst all chiropractors. We believe that you have a right to practice chiropractic in as broad a manner as your license allows, or as narrow a manner as you wish. If you want to practice chiropractic orthopedics or neurology, we are behind you 100%. If you are a principled subluxation based B.J. Palmer chiropractor, we respect everything that you are doing and will fall on our sword to protect your way of practice.

The Arizona Chiropractic Society Board of Directors includes the following distinguished members: Drs. Gregg Friedman, Kelly Buth, Michael Cormier, David Brotman (served on the Arizona Chiropractic Board of Examiners for ten years), Shaun Miglore, Michael V. Giacoppo, Mark Klingert, Clinton Bennion, Trever Penny, Erin Chisholm, Jenna Haggard, Bruce Homsey and Alan M. Immerman, ACS President and Executive Director.

We have a long track record. The roots of ACS date back to 1988 when Drs. Alan Immerman and Terry Rondberg founded the Arizona Chiropractic Alliance (AzCA). Our original Board of Governors included Drs. Immerman and Rondberg, Drs. Jeff Jolley, Steven Shochat, Greg Penniston, Michael Shaikewitz, Andy Meguin, Daniel Allen, Jeff Alfred and Dennis Kirsten. District Representatives included Drs. Mark Wiegand, Mark Klingert, Mike Giacoppo, Steve Giacoppo, Warren Levine, John Brimhall, John Geary, Dennis Crenshaw, Michael Edgley, George Camacho and Martin Gage. We established “live and let live” so firmly in Arizona that it is no longer an issue. What a relief! Now we can focus on taking care of our patients.

The Arizona Chiropractic Society believes firmly in the concept of insurance equality. We believe that if an insurance company would pay for care of your patient if an MD or DO cared for your patient, then the insurer should be required by law to pay for your care of the same patient, even if your methods are different which they obviously are since you do not use drugs or surgery. We have successfully fought the entire insurance industry at the Arizona State Legislature to enact four landmark insurance equality laws since 1990.

The Arizona Chiropractic Society is a group of chiropractors who decided that we were not going to tolerate unfair treatment by the Arizona Chiropractic Board of Examiners. We wanted action now! So we filed multiple complaints with the State Ombudsman’s Office. We published many harsh commentaries about the Board. We complained vociferously to key legislators. We publicized the 1,100 anonymous complaints filed against the DC members of the Board for allegedly disposing of patient records in outside trash without shredding or incinerating, and the Board’s subsequent dismissal of the complaints, and the continuing developments.

The Arizona Chiropractic Society is a group of chiropractors who decided that we were not going to tolerate it when insurers raised patient copays, coinsurance and deductibles so high that it was almost impossible for our patients to get needed care. We wanted action! So in early 2007 we hired a lobbyist, former State Representative, and chiropractic champion when she was in office, Debra Brimhall Pearson, and asked leading legislators to help. Senator Linda Gray, a leader in the 17 member Senate Republican Caucus, agreed to be a prime sponsor of our bill from the Republican side. Senator Gray is also Chair of the Public Safety and Human Services Committee and was ACS Legislator of the Year in 2006 and 2007.

On the Democratic side there are 13 members to the Caucus. Senator Rebecca Rios holds the position of Minority Whip which requires her to gather her Caucus together so that the members vote with each other as much as possible. Senator Rios’ position is considered leadership, third position behind Minority Leader and Assistant Minority Leader. Senator Rios is widely respected at the Capitol on both sides of the aisle. Sen. Rios kindly agreed to cosponsor our bill.

The Arizona Chiropractic Society is a group of chiropractors who decided that we were not going to tolerate the Department of Insurance claiming that physiotherapy is not a usual and customary treatment procedure of a chiropractor. We wanted action now! Real action! Not more meetings between associations and the Department of Insurance. The time had come to spend some real money and retain an attorney who is really an expert in insurance regulatory law and has significant experience interacting with the Department of Insurance. ACS initiated that effort in January, 2007.

ACS is a practical organization. We respond to the actual needs of our members. We are in constant contact with our members, monitoring what is happening in their practices on a regular basis and what problems they are encountering. When difficulties occur, we design effective and intelligent solutions using either legislation, litigation, public relations or some other avenue to quickly solve the problem. ACS is known in Arizona as the organization that actually gets things done.