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Section 2706 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against health-care providers, including complementary and alternative therapies. If implemented, there will be an unprecedented opportunity over the next 12 months for chiropractors and massage therapists to become covered providers for many more insurance companies. Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium’s Partners for Health Team [...]
A new report from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services looked at health care spending data from 1970 to 2010. The report found that in 1970, 40% of our healthcare spending was out-of-pocket; in 2010, that had dropped to 14%. We’ve dramatically shifted healthcare spending from the patient to third parties — third parties [...]
With more Americans penny pinching, fewer are spending money on complementary and alternative therapies. A new analysis of data from 2002-8 revealed that while healthcare spending on CAM therapies was previously on the rise, that trend seems to have hit a plateau. Since CAM therapies like chiropractic are often paid for out of pocket, the [...]
Congress’ belated Christmas gift to doctors: a temporary extension of Medicare reimbursements as part of the fiscal cliff package passed yesterday. As congress wrangled over how to deal with the fiscal cliff, doctors faced up 28.5% cuts to Medicare reimbursements. That could jeopardize payments received by millions of health-care providers and make it more difficult [...]
How will the new healthcare law affect chiropractic? Will it expand coverage of chiropractic services or cause more headaches for patients seeking alternative care? Answers to those questions depend largely on where you live. In an article from The Washington Post, health-policy writer Sarah Kliff describes how individual states have the power to decide what constitutes [...]
With the fate of the new healthcare law firmly in place since Obama’s reelection, many chiropractors are wondering what the Affordable Care Act will mean for their practice. Will the law expand coverage of chiropractic as a core benefit? Or will the profession be reduced to an add-on, non-essential service? These questions are addressed in [...]
President Obama’s reelection erases any lingering concerns about the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but how the law will take shape over the next four years is still uncertain. By 2016, most states will operate insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion will broaden coverage to millions of Americans. But the law still faces challenges [...]
With everyone gearing up for the presidential debates tonight, a Medscape Today article pauses to consider what doctors would ask the presidential candidates on the issue of healthcare. Most doctors surveyed wanted to grill the candidates on issues surrounding the Affordable Care Act. “How does the law Gov. Romney signed in Massachusetts differ from the [...]
Healthcare spending increased by 4.6% in 2011 for people on employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a new report released today by the Health Care Cost Institute. Increased spending has less to do with increased utilization of services and more to do with rising costs, analysts says. Spending on prescription drugs increased by 1%, far lower [...]
An interesting story today in the Los Angeles Times explores a common frustration for both chiropractic patients and practitioners: insufficient insurance coverage for complementary and alternative medical therapies (CAM), including chiropractic. As the article points out, although consumer interest in CAM has increased steadily and although research has backed up the cost-effectiveness of many types [...]
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