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Chiropractic is 124 Years Old Today!
And doesn’t look a day over 80!!!
September 18th, 1895: The Greatest Day in American Heath Care, EVER!
September 18th is Chiropractic’s birthday. The only healthcare model exclusively developed in the United States of America, has always presented a change from the status quo. In direct competition with drug companies and the Medical Model, it came into this world as an unwanted model of healthcare from the AMA, medical doctors and drug companies.
In fact, the AMA, in a Supreme Court decision in 1989, admitted to using negative propaganda, and slander about the effectiveness, safety and training of chiropractors. The AMA also admitted to have a Committee within the organization whose sole purpose was to influence the decision of medical doctors to not to refer to chiropractors and to carry out this slander. After reviewing all the facts, clinical trials, safety records, and training the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chiropractic and mandated the Medical doctors and the AMA start referring to Chiropractors, and to have an open door policy. After 10 years of practice, I’m still waiting for that door.
So, with all this negative publicity, and with the most powerful industry against chiropractic, how did it survive now to be the most frequented health care profession in our country?
Chiropractic’s incredibly safe record (chiropractic malpractice is about the cost of car insurance compared to six figure malpractice for the same coverage for medical doctors) and undeniable results has contributed to the amazing growth people being adjusted since 1895.
Recently, the medical journal: JMPT published a study that analyzed data from health comparisons between those who utilize a wellness oriented chiropractor as their Primary Care Physician and those who’s PCP practice a conventional Medical Model. Here are the findings:
Chiropractic/wellness patients had 60.2% fewer hospital admissions, 59% less days hospitalized, 62% less outpatient surgeries, and 85% less pharmaceutical costs (AMAZING!).
The same journal published the findings of 311 chiropractic patients, ages 65 and older, who had received “maintenance chiropractic care” for five or longer. What they found when they compared with citizens their own age:
- Chiropractic patients spent only 31% of the national average for health care
- They had 50% less medical provider visits
- Their health habits were radically better than overall population
- They had far less cigarette consumption
- 5% believed that care to be considerably and extremely valuable
Another recent study in the medical journal: Spine, 2007:32 states: Spinal problems reduce quality of life, decrease mobility, lower longevity (lifespan) and increase the risk of coronary artery disease.
124 years after its birth, the unwanted model of health care is radically improving lives, transforming the way people live, saving lives, and adding years to life.
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Medicare Chiropractic Policy
MEDICARE CHIROPRACTIC POLICY
• If you are injured, have an exam related to that injury and are under a treatment plan for that
specific injury, Medicare will cover a portion of your adjustment. After that treatment plan, it is
not covered.
• If you are being treated for chronic pain, Medicare will not cover it.
• If you are being treated on a periodic basis, i.e. twice a month, once a month, every 3 weeks…,
this is considered maintenance and Medicare will not cover it.
• Medicare never covers exams, x-rays, therapy or massage.
• Secondary does not cover anything Medicare doesn’t cover. They will cover the other portion of
the medically necessary adjustment.
• You are charged for services in our office at the Medicare specified rate (this is government
mandated)
• You will be told on every visit whether we believe Medicare will consider your services as
medically necessary.
Chiropractic Coverage
Medicare only provides coverage for the chiropractic adjustment of the spine. Your coverage
usually includes a number of visits based on medical necessity.
Exams, X-rays, Massage therapy, orthotics and physical therapy coverage:
Medicare never covers these. Instead, you are responsible for payment of these services at a
reduced Medicare rate.
What if I have secondary insurance?
This entirely depends on your secondary plan. Most secondary insurance will still only consider
the chiropractic adjustment. They simply reimburse the portion of the adjustment that Medicare
does not. All other services are still not covered. A select few (very few) secondary plans will
cover those services that Medicare does not even consider.
We do not file with your secondary insurance, Medicare does. We file with Medicare. After
Medicare completes the processing of your claims, they will send the explanation to your secondary
insurance for consideration. Some secondary insurances pay us directly as we are providers with
them. When this occurs, a credit will be applied to your account.
Maintenance Therapy:
“Maintenance therapy includes services that seek to prevent disease, promote health and prolong
and enhance the quality of life, or maintain or prevent deterioration of a chronic condition. When
further clinical improvement cannot reasonably be expected from continuous ongoing care, and the
chiropractic treatment becomes supportive rather than corrective in nature, the treatment is then
considered maintenance therapy. Under the Medicare program, Chiropractic maintenance therapy is
not considered to be medically reasonable or necessary, and is therefore not payable”
“Maintenance/Palliative Care is not a covered benefit for any of our covered managed care plans.”
We talked to Dr. John C Theeck D.C., Legacy Clinic-The Villages about how he incorporates a personalized program for each patient.
CORRECTIVE CHIROPRACTIC
Each patient that comes into my office has a specific structural condition that is affecting their spine and therefore causing symptoms of headaches, neck pain, and/or arthritis. Your first appointment at Legacy Clinic utilizes comprehensive analyzation in our state of the art facility. We focus on finding the cause to your problem and therefore permanently correcting your symptoms. An injury to the spinal structure causes a change in the muscles, muscle memory, and spinal column.
Traditional chiropractors focus on aligning the spinal column, but do not focus on strengthen the effected structure.
Physical Therapists focus on stretching and strengthen the damaged muscles associated with the compensation that occurred from the structural changed of the spinal column.
Dr. John C Theeck at Legacy Clinic utilizes the pettibon technique which focuses on changing the structure, neuromuscular exercises, and y-axial adjustments. “Each patient that comes into my office has a different spine”. I have never seen 2 of the exact same spines which mean each person gets specific PERSONALIZED exercises for their condition.
Do you want your adjustments to hold and to learn about the Pettibon Technique?
Contact Legacy Clinic of Chiropractic – The Villages
Feel free to contact us for more information!
Dr John Theeck, DC
Health and Wellness at Legacy Living
Serving Sumter County, Lake County and Marion County
Including The Villages, Lady Lake, Leesburg, Wildwood, Belleview and Ocala
The Villages Chiropractor, Spinal Decompression, Back Pain, Sciatica Relief, Posture Correction, Paleo Diet, Pettibon System, Alternative Health Care, Arthritis Care
Legacy Clinic
1950 Laurel Manor Drive
The Villages, FL 32162
352-259-0024
Info@LegacyClinicOfChiropractic.com