http://blog.acomhealth.com/270/uncategorized/how-do-chiropractors-report-meaningful-use-to-medicare/ Chiropractic Technology and Practice Management Insights Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.acomhealth.com/270/uncategorized/how-do-chiropractors-report-meaningful-use-to-medicare/comment-page-1/#comment-298 David Eade Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:32:09 +0000 http://blog.acomhealth.com/?p=270#comment-298 This article is a perfect example of the omnibus research on chiropractic and cost effectiveness. The data was there that showed more people used chiropractic after Medicare trained them to come to a DC for all NMS conditions. My question is how could it not be more expensive that previous data visits to chiropractors? This is BAD statistics and that report should be thrown out. The question should have been asked does DC care vs. MD care for NMS conditions save medicare money. It should then have added in hospital care, ER visits, medication costs, adverse reaction costs, complications from medications and injections vs. DC costs. This study only looked at previous DC cost to medicare vs. current cost following the study. Also the standard deviation in some of the data should have been thrown out because Illinois data is Too disimilar! Drug companies never hesistate to throw out data so why didn't the government. Anyway I agree with this article. At this point the government is not interested in Chiropractic because they published that article indicating there is no savings, when it just doesn't make any sense. So perhaps we can do one thing in the future. Have a minimum that the government must pay us and it can't be under $30 per adj. Secondly they must pay us for outcome assessments that they want, and thirdly pay us for Radiographs - it saves money vs. hospital cost. Finally we should be able to opt out of medicare if we choose. That's just my 2 cents. This article is a perfect example of the omnibus research on chiropractic and cost effectiveness. The data was there that showed more people used chiropractic after Medicare trained them to come to a DC for all NMS conditions. My question is how could it not be more expensive that previous data visits to chiropractors? This is BAD statistics and that report should be thrown out. The question should have been asked does DC care vs. MD care for NMS conditions save medicare money. It should then have added in hospital care, ER visits, medication costs, adverse reaction costs, complications from medications and injections vs. DC costs. This study only looked at previous DC cost to medicare vs. current cost following the study.
Also the standard deviation in some of the data should have been thrown out because Illinois data is Too disimilar! Drug companies never hesistate to throw out data so why didn’t the government. Anyway I agree with this article. At this point the government is not interested in Chiropractic because they published that article indicating there is no savings, when it just doesn’t make any sense.
So perhaps we can do one thing in the future. Have a minimum that the government must pay us and it can’t be under $30 per adj. Secondly they must pay us for outcome assessments that they want, and thirdly pay us for Radiographs – it saves money vs. hospital cost. Finally we should be able to opt out of medicare if we choose.
That’s just my 2 cents.

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