A new study finds that care for low back pain initiated with a chiropractor saves 40% on healthcare costs when compared with low back pain care initiated through a medical doctor, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) announced recently.
The study, featuring data from 85,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield beneficiaries, concludes that insurance companies that restrict access to chiropractic for low back pain treatment may inadvertently pay more for care than if they removed such restrictions.
Published in the well known Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), the new study looked at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee’s intermediate and large group, fully insured population over a two year span.
Comments:
- Why would insurance companies want to pay more for low back pain care?
- Why did Canada drop all Chiropractic care from their government paid national health care several years ago?
- If 80% of the entire population has back pain at least once in their life, that would cost insurance companies and or the government a lot more money.
- Why not embrace Chiropractic care as a lower cost alternative to expensive medical care for low back pain!
Source: American Chiropractic Association, Chiropractic Economics; 1/20/2011
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