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| Cost Effectiveness of Chiropractic | |||||||||
| Chiropractic treatment of back pain is a perfect example of how health care expenditures can be reduced while in fact increasing the quality of care. Not only is chiropractic treatment significantly less costly than treatment managed by a medical doctor, but because chiropractic care can get workers back on the job more quickly, it can save business millions of dollars in lost productivity. | |||||||||
| Cost/Quality Analysis: | |||||||||
| "The overwhelming body of evidence shows that chiropractic management of low-back pain is more cost effective than medical management, and that many medical therapies are of questionable validity or are clearly inadequate . . . Chiropractic manipulation is safer than medical management of low-back pain." The Manga Report, 1993. "There would be highly significant cost savings if more management of low-back pain was transferred from physicians to chiropractors . . . Users of chiropractic care have substantially lower health care costs, especially inpatient costs, than those who use medical care only." The Manga Report, 1993. |
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| Mean Compensation Costs: | |||||||||
| "The mean compensation cost (not treatment costs) paid out by the Utah Worker's Compensation Board for patients treated by medical doctors was $668.39; the mean compensation cost paid for patients treated by chiropractic was only $68.38." Journal of Occupational Medicine, 1991. "Cost per Case Comparison of Back Injury Claims for Chiropractic vs. Medical Management for Conditions with Identical Diagnostic Code." Medical Payments Total medical costs for back-related injuries cost the Utah Worker's Compensation Board an average of $1,665.43 per case; chiropractic costs for similar cost only $775.30. D.C. Tracts, 1989. "Cost per Case Analysis of Utah Industrial Back Injury Claims: Chiropractic Management vs. Medical Management for Diagnostically Equivalent Conditions." |
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| Comparison of Compensation Days | |||||||||
| Days Of 1,996 low-back pain cases studied, patients receiving chiropractic treatment averaged 6.26 compensation days compared to 25.56 compensation days for medical patients. Chiropractic Journal of Australia, 1991."Mechanical Low-Back Pain: A Comparison o Medical and Chiropractic Management." |
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| The Av-Med Study | |||||||||
| This study included 80 patients, each of whom was previously treated by a medical doctor and subsequently referred to the Silverman Chiropractic Center. Of these 80 patients, 21% had been diagnosed with disc problems, 5% received emergency room treatment and 12% had been diagnosed as requiring surgery. Following chiropractic treatment, no surgery was required. 86% needed no further treatment at all. And the projected savings on the patient study group was approximately $250,000. The Av-Med Study, 1993. |
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