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Arkansas: the business of practice

What Arkansas’s statute, administrative rules and chiropractic board publish on eight topics of running a practice, quoted as published, each with its citation as printed, its source and the date we read it. Read on 9 October 2026.

Advertising · Titles and claims · Prepaid care and financial arrangements · Discounts, free services and inducements · Record retention · Assistants and delegation · Corporate practice and ownership · Telehealth

1. Advertising

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  • No person defined in § 17-81-102(5) as a physician may solicit for patronage or advertise for patronage by any means, whatever which is misleading, fraudulent, deceptive or dishonest.17-81-104 · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • Advertising by chiropractic physicians should be dignified, ethical and professional, not necessarily limited to, but preferably of an educational or informative nature or as a statement of basic fees.007.33.8-2-D · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • Chiropractic physicians have the sole responsibility over the employees or agents hired, including those hired for advertising/marketing purposes.007.33.8-2-D · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 1. Advertising/marketing by doctors of chiropractic should conform to professional standards, and shall be truthful and not misleading, deceptive, fraudulent or dishonest.007.33.8-2-D(1) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 3. Misleading the public by advertising/marketing or otherwise publicizing a list of various diseases as being universally curable is prohibited.007.33.8-2-D(3) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 6. No person licensed by this Board may state or imply by any advertising or printed matter that said licensee is practicing any other licensed, regulated or recognized profession unless said licensee is actually qualified and, where required, licensed or registered to practice such other profession.007.33.8-2-D(6) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • Therefore, before an advertisement is produced, distributed, or displaced, a practitioner who requests from a patient a testimonial to the treatment or modalities used by the practitioner must obtain written consent and have a signed release form from the patient to be kept in the patient's file.007.33.8-2-D(8) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 9. Telephone communication including advertising/marketing. Any agent, procurer, contractor, or employee communicating with a prospective patient on behalf of a chiropractic physician shall disclose how the agent, procurer, contractor, or employee obtained the prospective patient’s information.007.33.8-2-D(9) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: 007.33.8-2-D(2) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(4) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(5) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(7) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(9)(a) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(9)(b) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(2)(m) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(2)(r) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 17-81-107 (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 17-81-105 (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(8) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(9) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version).

2. Titles and claims

quoted Further provisions in the same documents: 17-81-315(a)(2) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 17-81-102(5) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(3)(a) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(3)(d) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-E(8)(e)(3) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 17-81-303(a) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); Frequently Asked Questions: (no section number printed) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Frequently_Asked_Questions.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version).

3. Prepaid care and financial arrangements

not found Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version). Not found in what we read on 9 October 2026. Pages read: healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · healthy.arkansas.gov · Frequently_Asked_Questions.pdf · healthy.arkansas.gov · chiropractic-examiners-arkansas-state-board · healthy.arkansas.gov · licensees · healthy.arkansas.gov · procurers · healthy.arkansas.gov · applicants. Read the whole of the board’s own copy of the act (17-81-101 to 17-81-318) and rules (007.33.8, updated February 10, 2021), the board’s FAQ and its Licensees, Procurers and Applicants pages, and searched them for prepa, prepaid, advance, care plan, package, contract, refund, unearned, financing and escrow; the hits are the procurer contract (17-81-107) and advance explanation of charges on free-service visits (D.4(a)), and none addresses prepayment, care plans, refunds of prepaid fees or financing terms. Absence in what we read is not absence in the jurisdiction’s law.

4. Discounts, free services and inducements

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  • 2. Unprofessional acts. The following acts or activities by a licensee of this Board are considered to constitute unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action.007.33.8-2-C(2) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (s) Paying or promising to pay, or leading any person to reasonably believe that they would receive any consideration or anything of value in an attempt to induce such person or minor under such person’s guardianship or parental control to present to the office of a chiropractic physician as a new patient; or if already a patient, in connection with any incident of injury that is or may be the basis of an insurance claim. This provision explicitly includes inducements made through an agent, procurer, contractor, or employee; this provision does not prohibit informing members of the public that a chiropractic physician provides transportation for treating patients.007.33.8-2-C(2)(s) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 4. Limitations to advertising/marketing free or reduced charges. The offering by doctors of chiropractic in advertisements or other solicitations to the public of initial services at no charge or at reduced charges shall be considered misleading or untruthful if, at the time of such advertised no-charge or reduced-charge visit.007.33.8-2-D(4) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (a) Charges are made to the patient’s account for services not specified in such advertisement or solicitation and which are provided on the same visit or same day and are hidden to the patient or not explained in advance to the patient.007.33.8-2-D(4)(a) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (b) The patient and any other person responsible for payment has the right to refuse to pay or cancel payment or be reimbursed for payment for any service, examination or treatment which is performed as a result of and within 72 hours of responding to advertising for free service examination or treatment unless before any service, examination or treatment is provided that patient and any other person responsible, for payment enters into a written agreement consenting to be charged, for said service, examination or treatment.007.33.8-2-D(4)(b) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 4. Improper Charges, Fraud. Improper charges constitute a form of fraudulent and deceptive practice. Without limiting the definition of improper charges, the following may be considered improper:007.33.8-2-C(4) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (e) Announcing to the public, individually or through advertising, marketing, or public relations efforts, prior to the rendition of services, that payment made by an insurance carrier or a third-party payer with co-payment or deductible features will be accepted by the licensee as payment in full, or reduced payment, unless if, at the time the billing is made, licensee discloses such agreement, services rendered and the amount billed for each service to both the patient and insurance carrier or third-party payer. This disclosure must be made on the face of the statement, or on a label affixed to the statement, by type printed or stamped in legible characters of at least ten (10) points in height. Provided, however, that this subsection shall not prohibit a discount, credit or reduction of charges provided under an agreement between the holder of a license and an insurance company, health service corporation or health maintenance organization licensed under the laws of this State; or governmental third-party payment program; or self-insurance program organized, managed or funded by a business entity for its own employees or labor organization for its members.007.33.8-2-C(4)(e) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • Advertising free x-ray services without explanation of need or otherwise implying indiscriminate use of x- radiation is prohibited.007.33.8-2-D(2) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: 007.33.8-2-D(4)(c) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(4)(a) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(4)(f) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version).

5. Record retention

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  • 2. Unprofessional acts. The following acts or activities by a licensee of this Board are considered to constitute unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action.007.33.8-2-C(2) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (o) Failure to keep accurate records which reflect the diagnosis and treatment of individual patients.007.33.8-2-C(2)(o) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (e) Ownership of x-rays, photographs and medical records. This Board confirms judicial decisions that x-rays, photographs and medical records belong to the doctor, clinic or institution originating such records.007.33.8-2-E(4)(e) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (1) Telephone solicitation/marketing of victims of accidental injury and which are conducted on behalf of chiropractic physicians shall be made in substantial conformance to a written script which is considered by the Board to have been specifically approved by the chiropractic physician. The chiropractic physician shall be required to maintain such scripts for a period of two (2) years following their utilization. Scripts are to be made available for review upon request by this Board or its designee.007.33.8-2-D(9)(b)(1) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: 007.33.8-2-D(8) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-D(9)(b)(2) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version).

6. Assistants and delegation

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  • (4) “Chiropractic aide” means an unlicensed member of the chiropractic team who may assist a chiropractic physician in the performance of those procedures and techniques constituting the practice of chiropractic as defined in this chapter with the exception of spinal manipulation and adjustment, provided that such assistance shall be performed under the direct supervision of a licensed chiropractic physician;17-81-102(4) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (a) The chiropractic aide may not render any diagnosis, submit treatment plans to patients, or in any other way assume responsibility for the management of patient care.007.33.8-2-E(2)(a) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (b) The chiropractic aide may not render any manipulative adjustment treatment or spinal mobilization.007.33.8-2-E(2)(b) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (c) The chiropractic aide may perform specific testing procedures and/or adjunctive therapeutics under the order, direction and responsibility of the supervising doctor.007.33.8-2-E(2)(c) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (d) Chiropractic aides must obtain a Radiologic Technology License through the Arkansas Department of Health to perform x-rays. The Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety Act, Act 1071 of 1999, requires that individuals who use radioactive materials or medical equipment emitting or detecting ionizing radiation on human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, be licensed to do so.007.33.8-2-E(2)(d) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • A: Supervision of an assistant, temporary license holder, or extern: the doctor must be on the premises at all times.Frequently Asked Questions: (no section number printed) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Frequently_Asked_Questions.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 2. Unprofessional acts. The following acts or activities by a licensee of this Board are considered to constitute unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action.007.33.8-2-C(2) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (j) Failing to exercise appropriate supervision over persons who are authorized to render certain services under the supervision of the licensed professional.007.33.8-2-C(2)(j) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: 007.33.8-2-E(2)(e) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-C(1)(a) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); Frequently Asked Questions: (no section number printed) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Frequently_Asked_Questions.pdf); 17-81-316(e)(3) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf); 007.33.8-2-E(8)(e)(2)(A) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version).

7. Corporate practice and ownership

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  • (b) The practicing of chiropractic within the State of Arkansas as a partner, agent, or employee of, or in any other manner in joint venture with a person not licensed to practice chiropractic by this State, or any person whose license to practice chiropractic has been suspended or revoked shall be deemed unprofessional conduct.007.33.8-2-C(1)(b) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (c) Nothing in this section is intended to prohibit or prevent professional affiliation in any legitimate manner with duly licensed or registered institutions, hospitals, or nursing homes, or the practicing of chiropractic in association with other health care professionals who are themselves duly licensed or registered by this State.007.33.8-2-C(1)(c) · healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: 007.33.8-2-C(1)(a) (healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version).

8. Telehealth

Shown only where the jurisdiction publishes a provision specific to chiropractic.

not found Not read on 9 October 2026: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov · JavaScript shell, no document (search application; the department’s rules page names the Code of Arkansas Rules as the current version). Not found in what we read on 9 October 2026. Pages read: healthy.arkansas.gov · Statutes_RulesFINAL_02-10-2021.pdf · healthy.arkansas.gov · Frequently_Asked_Questions.pdf · healthy.arkansas.gov · chiropractic-examiners-arkansas-state-board · healthy.arkansas.gov · licensees · healthy.arkansas.gov · procurers · healthy.arkansas.gov · applicants. Read the whole of the board’s own copy of the act (17-81-101 to 17-81-318) and rules (007.33.8, updated February 10, 2021), the board’s FAQ and its Licensees, Procurers and Applicants pages, and searched them for telehealth, telemedicine, electronic and remote; electronic means appear only in the procurer definition, the exempted-activity notice and continuing-education distance learning, and no chiropractic telehealth provision was found. Absence in what we read is not absence in the jurisdiction’s law.

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