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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

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