Board suspends Wichita chiropractor for 30 days

Published: 2009-12-10 06:47:51
Author: KAREN SHIDELER | The Wichita Eagle | December 10, 2009

Wichita chiropractor Bradley Eck says he plans to resume his practice after completing a record-keeping course and a 30-day suspension, as ordered by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts.

Eck said earlier this week that he hadn't been formally notified of the suspension, which the board ordered Friday, but has arranged to have another chiropractor care for his patients during his time away.

Eck's primary office is at 7348 W. 21st St.

The course requirement and license suspension stem from a consent order filed in February over Eck's flat-fee contracts, advertising and failure to maintain proper records. Eck was placed on probation and ordered to refund money to 13 patients who'd had the flat-fee contracts, to have his ads reviewed, to complete an approved record-keeping course and to pay a fine of $5,000.

Eck said he and the board have "some disputable issues as to whether or not that (the consent order) was being followed like they wanted it to."

That's reflected in a petition filed in late October that said Eck had not met the consent order conditions. It asked for his license to be "revoked, suspended, censured, fined or otherwise limited."

On Friday, the Board of Healing Arts ordered him to immediately comply with the consent order and suspended his license for 30 days. It said he had to complete the record-keeping course before the suspension could be lifted.

A spokeswoman for the board said that because Eck had filed bankruptcy proceedings, the board couldn't address the financial requirements. "Everything else, he must be in compliance with," said Lisa Corwin.

Eck filed a bankruptcy petition in late September, but court records show it has been dismissed. "I do not have a bankruptcy on file," Eck said this week. "There was no mention of that on Friday."

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