{"id":6474,"date":"2010-06-03T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/wellness-blog\/2010\/06\/a-strange-answer-to-health-care-reform.html"},"modified":"2018-06-26T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:35:23","slug":"a-strange-answer-to-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/wellness-blog\/2010\/06\/a-strange-answer-to-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Answer to Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
An article printed in the the Journal for Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics<\/i> (Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 263-269, May 2007) analyzed clinical and cost utilization data over a 7 year period. How is this cost analysis different? They allowed people to pick doctors of chiropractic and other alternative providers as their primary care physicians.<\/p>\n
Here’s what the data showed: decreases of 60.2% in-hospital admissions, 59% hospital days, 62% outpatient sugeries and procedures and 85% pharmaceutical costs <\/b>when compared with conventional medicine IPA performance for the same HMO product in the same geography and time frame.<\/p>\n
Wow! Certainly food for thought as we move into how to spread the health care dollars around.<\/p>\n
An article printed in the the Journal for Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 263-269, May 2007) analyzed clinical and cost utilization data over a 7 year period. How is this cost analysis different? They allowed people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,21],"yoast_head":"\r\n