Texas Chiropractor (DC) CE category requirements

How the 32 CE hours every 2 years breaks down by category for chiropractors in Texas, sourced from the official board.

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Required categories

Board-required topics: ethics, risk management, recordkeeping, documentation and coding (4 hours each year — minimum 3 hrs in Board rules/ethics/recordkeeping/documentation/coding plus minimum 1 hr risk management relating to TX practice)
8h
General TBCE-approved continuing education (16 hours each year; 32 per biennium)
32h
Coding and documentation for Medicare claims (one-time; for licensees licensed on/after Sept 1, 2012, complete no later than the second renewal period)
8h

Texas chiropractors renew biennially on their birth month and must complete 16 hours of approved CE each year (32 per biennium), including 4 hours per year of Board-required topics, plus a one-time 8-hour Medicare coding/documentation requirement. UNCONFIRMED: the current per-year cap on online CE hours (older Board materials cite 6 hrs/year; a later proposed increase to 12 was only tabled) was not verified in the current rule text.

Official source: Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners

⚠️Board rules change. Verify every figure against the official source before relying on it.

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