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Including Chiropractic to
Save Money
Several stories have surfaced where chiropractic care is
being included in health care plans in an effort to
drive down the overall cost of health care. In one story
from the February 22, 2005 Business Wire, California
Assemblyman Paul Koretz (right) introduced legislation
designed to reduce skyrocketing health care costs by
including chiropractic as a mandatory benefit. The
report notes that the bill, AB 1185, was prompted by a
new study reporting that health care spending soaks up
24% of the growth in the economy. Another recent study
showed that adding chiropractic care to an insurance
plan actually helps lower the costs of the plan.
California Senator Elaine Alquist is also in support of
this concept and added, "Everyone who must grapple with
the astronomical costs of health care -- insurers,
patients, employers, and the government -- will benefit
from wider access to chiropractic care, which can
provide proven cost savings to the health care system."
California is not the only place where the trend of
including chiropractic to save money has caught on. As
reported in another Business Wire report on March 3,
2005, American Specialty Health (ASH), a leading
complementary health care organization, is debuting new
health plan coverage that allows employers in the state
of Virginia to offer low-cost insurance benefits for
complementary health care including chiropractic.
The offering makes good business sense. The report notes
that according to George Devries, president and CEO of
American Specialty Health, a new study in the Archives
of Internal Medicine shows that employees with
chiropractic insurance coverage had 41 percent fewer
hospitalizations for back pain than employees without
chiropractic coverage. Employees with chiropractic
coverage also had 32 percent fewer back surgeries and
significantly lower utilization rates for expensive
procedures such as CT and MRI scans as well as X-rays
when compared with employees without chiropractic
insurance. "With the growing consumer demand for
complementary health care and employers' increasing
needs for cost-effective health coverages, our company
is stepping in to meet a need that is often unfulfilled
by mainstream insurers," said Devries. "As a result,
coverage is becoming easier for employees to get."
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