Are you aware that in the United States back pain is the second leading cause for physician visits and is second only to childbirth for hospitalizations? 

It is also the most prevalent chronic medical condition and primary cause of long-term disability.  Back pain, headaches, arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders combine to cost employers $61 billion per year in lost productive time alone and $100 billion in annual health care costs.  

JAMA 2003, Arch Intern Med. 2004; 164:1985-1992

Did you know that employees with chiropractic coverage incur fewer back surgeries?

A new study sponsored by American Specialty Health, the nation's largest insurer of alternative healthcare, reveals that people with chiropractic coverage receive fewer back surgeries, hospitalizations and treatment costs.  The study shows that chiropractic health plan benefits can reduce employers' annual healthcare expenses.  The study concluded that employees with chiropractic health plan coverage, as compared to those without, incurred a 41 percent reduction in hospitalizations for back pain and a 32 percent reduction in back surgeries.  In addition, the study showed that those with chiropractic health plan coverage incurred a 37 percent reduction in the use of highly expensive CT/MRI scans for back problems and a 23 percent reduction in the use of X-rays.  Overall, the cost per episode of treating back pain was 28 percent less for employees with chiropractic health plan coverage than for those without coverage. 

The study conducted by independent health services research organization Health Benchmarks Inc., is the largest ever done comparing back treatment costs individuals with and without chiropractic health plan coverage.  Covering four years of retrospective claims data, the study compared over 700,000 health plan members with chiropractic coverage to 1 million members of the same health plan who had no chiropractic coverage.

                                                                                    Arch Intern Med. 2004

**In the State of Washington, there is chiropractic coverage on almost all insurance plans.  We are preferred providers for most insurance companies including but not limited to Regence, Premera, United, First Choice, First Health, Aetna.