The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is pleased to announce that Anthony Hamm, DC, FACO, president of ACA’s Council of Delegates, is the first doctor of chiropractic to be elected co-chair of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee (HCPAC) Review Board.

The HCPAC develops recommendations on relative values for new and revised CPT codes for non-MD/DO services. Hamm’s two-year term begins in September.

In his role as HCPAC co-chair, Hamm will also serve on the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). The RUC makes annual recommendations on relative values regarding new and revised services to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and performs broad reviews every five years of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS), which determines Medicare provider reimbursement.

“ACA strongly supported Dr. Hamm’s nomination to this position given his clinical and socioeconomic experience and expertise in making appropriate recommendations for CPT codes across specialties,” said ACA President Rick McMichael, DC. “This historic event is consistent with the ACA’s commitment to the delivery of high quality patient care by doctors of chiropractic within multi-disciplinary practice settings.”

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