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Why Not Seeing a Chiropractor Can Cost You

Why Not Seeing a Chiropractor Can Cost You Didn’t consult a chiropractor first for your back pain? That’ll cost you $1.3 billion. No, you personally won’t be on the hook for the entire amount. But in analyzing two year’s worth of its own insurance data, the health care giant, Optum, projected that’s how much money healthcare consumers would’ve saved had patients who’d experienced 14.7 million reported non-surgical spinal episodes received chiropractic care at the outset. Optum’s definition of “at the outset” is “within the first 10 days” of a spinal episode. Research found that taking advantage of that window drastically Read More »