There’s a Spring conference now…in Eastern Washington?


Yes! Our alternating schedule of annual conferences that take place in one side of the state one year and multiple locations the next is going away. It was necessary as we came out of COVID and there were still caps on attendance, but we need to produce more focused, larger events now that we don’t have those restrictions.


So, beginning in 2026, we’ll have two major conferences each year. Our fall conference will remain in the Seattle/Tacoma area, but in the spring, we’ll be east of the mountains. Some years it will be in Central Washington and others it will be farther east. Our first spring conference—titled “WSCA Spring Connect”—will be held April 11 and 12 at the Confluence Technology Center in Wenatchee. Visit www.wscaconnect. com to learn more and register.


Licensing fees are a reflection of the costs associated with regulating licensees. If there are more investigations and/ or disciplinary actions, the Commission’s expenses go up. License fees are the only way to collect for that. As the WSCA has reported for years now, the Commission is still working its way through COVID-era complaints which, unfortunately, were quite numerous. The merits of those complaints may be debatable, but the costs of investigating and adjudicating them are not.


“But MDs don’t have licensing fees that high,” you say? True. But there’s also more of them. A lot more. There are about 2,500 chiropractic licensees in Washington, give or take. But there are over 32,000 medical licensees (35,000 if you include DOs). Spreading those operating costs over that many people keeps the individual fees relatively low. We just don’t have the numbers to keep ours in line with what they have been in recent years. It’s probably not the answer you want, but it is the answer.


Each issue of Plexus features several frequently asked questions about chiropractic in Washington. If you have any questions you’d like to see shared in the magazine, please submit them to:


Washington State Chiropractic Association


c/o Shaka Forest, Membership Director 1120 Pacific Ave., Ste. 206 Tacoma, WA 98402 wsca@chirohealth.org


I just renewed my license and the fees went up 45%!!! That can’t be right. What happened?


Calm down. Take a deep breath. Yes, that’s what the new license renewal fees are. Up from $550, the renewal fee for all chiropractic licenses expiring on or after December 1, 2025 will be $800. That’s not for renewals processed after December 1, but for licenses that expire on or after that date. So if your renewal date is in January, renewing before December 1 won’t lower your fee. Most DCs will probably have some serious sticker shock seeing that, but it is what it is.


“Licensing fees are a reflection of the costs associated with regulating licensees. If there are more investigations and/or disciplinary actions, the Commission’s expenses go up.”


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