Beyond pain management, chiropractic care offers holistic wellness benefits that more employers and healthcare payers are starting to realize. Some major corporations even provide on-site chiropractic services as part of wellness care for their employees. In a recent study by Daniel Lord, D.C., and other spine specialists, findings showed that integrating physical medicine in employer-sponsored clinics decreased wait times for these services to seven days (two to four times faster than visiting a doctor’s office or clinic). Patients receiving care in employer-sponsored clinics also experienced marked improvements in their avoidance of actions they thought would cause back-related pain, and in their functional status, or the measure of their ability to perform daily activities. All these improvements happened in eight fewer visits than were needed to a heath-care provider outside of the workplace, resulting in $472 to $630 savings/patient episode.29
Heath-care administrators, physicians and patients all value the synergies when chiropractic care is used in multidisciplinary settings, according to new research. Fully integrating chiropractic
care improves outcomes, reduces costs and absenteeism and increases employee retention for companies.30
Insurance companies stand to benefit in similar ways from covering integrated options. Public-health programs also note the benefits of chiropractic care when opioids have been prescribed for back and joint pain. Among veterans of recent U.S. wars, a 2018 study found nearly one-third of patients receiving VA chiropractic services also received an opioid prescription, yet the frequency of opioid prescriptions was lower in three 30-day time frames assessed after patients’ chiropractic visits than before.31
Studies of Medicare patients and of more than 2 million insurance subscribers report total annual healthcare costs to be 30 percent to 50 percent less with chiropractic care than with medical doctor-only care for back pain.32
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