Questions, answered plainly.

• A published feature article about your practice.
• A verified public profile with your booking link.
• The Chiro+ Verified badge, plus an embed for your own site.
• A certificate and a featured social graphic.
• A brand kit and a monthly update slot.
• A public verification page anyone can check.

Membership is $79/month or $599/year. You are charged when you join, before you write anything — the membership is what opens the Article Studio.

The invoice reads: “Chiro+ membership — publication & member services. Awards are never for sale.”

If your article cannot clear review after two revision rounds — or your license check does not come back in good standing — your membership is cancelled and refunded in full, automatically.

No support ticket, no chasing anyone. It is built into the system, not a policy someone has to remember. The door stays open for a fresh draft later.

Same membership, paid once a year: $599 for the year instead of $948, which saves $349.

A $249/month tier, by application. It adds speaking and media placement, the Chiro+ Gives service programs, growth systems, and a quarterly leadership cohort.

It carries no advantage in recognition of any kind. Nothing you can purchase changes that. Honorees are chosen by editorial judgment against the published criteria alone.

Three to five business days from submission. Features run 600–1,200 words.

Nine editorial criteria, published in full on the editorial standards page. Criteria 1–5 are compliance gates, 6–7 are professional standards, 8–9 are the quality bar.

Revision requests cite the criterion number, so you always know exactly what to fix.

Two revision rounds are included. Light copy edits are handled as touch-ups rather than a revision round, and you are told when that happens.

If it still cannot clear after two rounds, published-or-refunded applies.

It has to be editorial, not advertising, and it has to stay inside your scope of practice. No cure claims or guaranteed outcomes. No patient data or identifying details, ever.

The guidance sits beside the editor while you write — you will not have to go hunting for a PDF.

That your license is verified and in good standing, that you have a published feature in Chiro+, and that your membership is active. That is the whole claim.

It does not claim you are the best, the top, or number one. It never has and it never will — that is what makes it usable in your advertising.

Against your state board record, using the license number and state you supply. Automated where the state supports lookup, same-day manual where it does not. Rechecked annually.

It stops showing as verified — everywhere, immediately. The badge on your own site, the embed, and your verification page all read live from the record rather than from a saved flag.

That is deliberate. A badge that could go stale would not be worth checking.

Fine to say: “Featured in Chiro+” or “Chiro+ Verified.”

Not fine: “voted best chiropractor,” “award-winning chiropractor,” “#1 in Austin.” Several state boards restrict superlative advertising, so this protects you as much as us.

The binding version lives in the badge usage license on the legal page.

One doctor a year, selected by editorial judgment against published criteria. The honor is The Golden Spine.

Free to enter. Never for sale.

Against seven criteria, published in full so anyone can read the basis:

• Active licensure in good standing
• Published feature in Chiro+
• Continuing education
• Community contribution
• Peer standing
• Practice standards
• Patient reputation

Editorial judgment decides. Nothing else does.

Yes. Anyone may put a colleague forward through the nomination page — you do not need an account to do it.

The announcement date for each award year is posted before that year's selection begins, and every member in good standing is notified by email at least thirty days beforehand.

Verification is separate and runs continuously — it never waits for the annual cycle.

Cancel any time. Your membership runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, then stops. An ordinary cancellation is not prorated.

Two things behave differently after that. Your verified status ends with the membership — the badge stops reading verified everywhere it appears. Anything you were named to stays on the record permanently; an honor belongs to the year it was given, and that does not lapse.

Separately, published-or-refunded still applies to a piece that cannot clear review: that one is a full refund, automatic.

All six documents live on the legal page: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Published-or-Refunded Terms, Award Rules & Criteria, Badge Usage License, and Content License.

Yes — manage them on the email preferences page. Transactional messages about your own article and your license standing keep sending, because you need those.

One business day. Send your question through the contact page and we answer within one business day.