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SCAMMED STUDENTS HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH CHIROPRACTIC ACCREDITOR
The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE), the professional accrediting body for every chiropractic professional school in the United States, has been summoned to an upcoming meeting of the U.S. Department of Education to answer questions regarding several unaddressed complaints which pertain to its renewal of recognition with the agency.
Washington, DC (PRWEB)-The US Department of Education (USDOE) has scheduled an open public hearing of complaints from graduates of the Life University College of Chiropractic in Marietta Georgia which is accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education. The hearing was prompted by complaints against the institution's accreditor which claimed that large numbers of chiropractors were being trained in an overutilization scam involving fraudulent diagnosis and treatment.
Losses from insurance scams total 10% of all health care costs and cost insurers between $30 billion and $50 billion dollars per year.
The USDOE complaint was filed by Allen Botnick DC of Plainfield, NJ. Dr. Botnick graduated from Life University magna cum laude in 1996. According to Dr. Botnick, lack of oversight from federal regulators in the advertising of nonprofit chiropractic schools combined with a sympathetic accreditor and state chiropractic licensing boards has led to the widespread use of false advertising in admissions materials. Students lured to the programs by exaggerated claims of the effectiveness and credibility of chiropractic treatment eventually discover the claims to be fraudulent years later-after wasting years of their lives in chiropractic training. Most students are prevented from suing the institutions by overly short statutes of limitations rules and prohibitively high attorney costs.
"These chiropractic programs try to make disgruntled graduates the scapegoats for their problems so they can continue to operate the scams. We are portrayed as deadbeat doctors trying to get out of paying our student loans but the reality is that the accreditor of these schools admitted to the US Department of Education that graduates of the institution I attended were not trained to diagnose and treat in a safe and appropriate manner. When I learned that I could harm patients and would be held liable for malpractice and insurance fraud the only ethical thing I could do was surrender my professional chiropractic licenses-depriving me of the ability to repay my student loans," Dr. Botnick stated.
The direct effects on students who attended Life University are severe. Dr. Botnick's complaint documents two students and one faculty member whose acceptance of anti-medical propaganda taught by the institution caused them to avoid medical diagnosis and treatment for serious symptoms, resulting in their deaths. Dr. Botnick estimates that 6% of all practicing chiropractors are affected by the specific problems documented in his complaint against Life University.
The Accrediting Agency Evaluation Unit of the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education will hold the hearing on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 8 a.m. EST at the Hilton Hotel located on 950 North Stafford Street in Arlington, Virginia. The hearing is open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb383327.htm .
SCAMMED STUDENTS HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH CHIROPRACTIC ACCREDITOR
The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE), the professional accrediting body for every chiropractic professional school in the United States, has been summoned to an upcoming meeting of the U.S. Department of Education to answer questions regarding several unaddressed complaints which pertain to its renewal of recognition with the agency.
Washington, DC (PRWEB)-The US Department of Education (USDOE) has scheduled an open public hearing of complaints from graduates of the Life University College of Chiropractic in Marietta Georgia which is accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education. The hearing was prompted by complaints against the institution's accreditor which claimed that large numbers of chiropractors were being trained in an overutilization scam involving fraudulent diagnosis and treatment.
Losses from insurance scams total 10% of all health care costs and cost insurers between $30 billion and $50 billion dollars per year.
The USDOE complaint was filed by Allen Botnick DC of Plainfield, NJ. Dr. Botnick graduated from Life University magna cum laude in 1996. According to Dr. Botnick, lack of oversight from federal regulators in the advertising of nonprofit chiropractic schools combined with a sympathetic accreditor and state chiropractic licensing boards has led to the widespread use of false advertising in admissions materials. Students lured to the programs by exaggerated claims of the effectiveness and credibility of chiropractic treatment eventually discover the claims to be fraudulent years later-after wasting years of their lives in chiropractic training. Most students are prevented from suing the institutions by overly short statutes of limitations rules and prohibitively high attorney costs.
"These chiropractic programs try to make disgruntled graduates the scapegoats for their problems so they can continue to operate the scams. We are portrayed as deadbeat doctors trying to get out of paying our student loans but the reality is that the accreditor of these schools admitted to the US Department of Education that graduates of the institution I attended were not trained to diagnose and treat in a safe and appropriate manner. When I learned that I could harm patients and would be held liable for malpractice and insurance fraud the only ethical thing I could do was surrender my professional chiropractic licenses-depriving me of the ability to repay my student loans," Dr. Botnick stated.
The direct effects on students who attended Life University are severe. Dr. Botnick's complaint documents two students and one faculty member whose acceptance of anti-medical propaganda taught by the institution caused them to avoid medical diagnosis and treatment for serious symptoms, resulting in their deaths. Dr. Botnick estimates that 6% of all practicing chiropractors are affected by the specific problems documented in his complaint against Life University.
The Accrediting Agency Evaluation Unit of the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education will hold the hearing on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 8 a.m. EST at the Hilton Hotel located on 950 North Stafford Street in Arlington, Virginia. The hearing is open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb383327.htm .
