CHIROPRACTIC IS LESS
COSTLY
"Patients that receive
chiropractic care, either solely or in conjunction with medical care
experience significantly lower health-care costs."
--Stano/Medstat Research
Miron Stano, PhD, Oakland
University, conducted a study comparing the health-care costs for
chiropractic and medical patients. The database he used came from the
records of MEDSTAT Systems, Inc., a health benefits management
consulting firm which processes insurance claims for many of the
country's largest corporations. The database was comprised of 395,641
patients, 42,215 of which were Michigan patients.
After reviewing claims
paid over a two-year period, he concluded:
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Patients who receive
chiropractic care, either solely or in conjunction with medical care,
experienced "significantly lower health-care costs... on the order of
$1,000 each over the two-year period" than those who received only
medical care. Specifically, total insurance payments were $1,138 (30%
higher) for those who elected medical care only.
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The lower costs for
chiropractic patients were attributal both to lower in-patient and
out-patient costs, and indicated that "chiropractic treatment
substitutes for other forms of out-patient care."
