Changing the laws regarding primary care providers would make it easier for those patients to get healthcare and perhaps save more money by catching diseases at an earlier stage. Chiropractic treatment also includes the use of heat, cold, water, exercise, massage, trigger point therapy, dietary advice and recommendation of nutritional supplementation except for medicines of herbal, animal, or botanical origin, the normal regimen and rehabilitation of the patient, first aid, and counseling on hygiene, sanitation, and preventative measures. Chiropractic care also includes such physiological therapeutic procedures as traction and light, but does not include procedures involving the application of sound, diathermy, or electricity. Dr. Evans believes that chiropractors could be primary care providers. It is advantageous to our healthcare industry to have chiropractors detect symptoms of disease.
Chiropractors are already on the lookout for abnormalities in there patients.
By allowing chiropractors to bill insurance companies for services based on detection of certain diseases, just like MD s could help increase the number of people receiving early treatment for cancer. This would in turn lower the expense fighting cancer because more people would beat the disease, based on early detection. When asked about Washington State s policy of any category of provider, ie.preferred provider, Dr. Evans states, as of June 1 st , Chiropractors do not have to have a referral from an M.D. in order to see and treat a patient and bill through the insurance company . However, the chiropractor has to prove to the insurance companies that the treatment received and the billing are within the insurance companies own policy guidelines . Each time a patient seeks Chiropractic healthcare, the insurance company policies can affect the depth of treatment received because the insurance company has the authority to set policy.