This is of particular importance to chiropractic physicians, because we all see countless soft-tissue injuries that not only will benefit from traditional manipulation, but metabolic care as well. They don't like it, and it looks like they aren't going to continue to put up with it. Beware of Wolves in Sheep's Clothing Medicine is never going to accept chiropractic or chiropractors as equals. Certainly there will be an increase in utilization of chiropractic in multipurpose health clinics and HMOs, but the care dispensed is going to be limited, and chiropractors will be viewed with less status than a PT or massage therapist. Our years of consulting with insurance companies have taught us much, especially about the prevailing negative, deeply entrenched, bigoted attitude regarding chiropractic.
Every insurance company has a fraud unit which exists to save money.
Chiropractic is high on the hit list. Inadequate and sloppy records are the first signal to claims handlers to turn the doctor over for investigation by the company's fraud unit. Chiropractic always has and always will be at its strongest as a separate and independent profession. What we say is sobering, but not without love. We fully realize that we are to love God and our fellow man, but we cannot survive if we attempt to deny the reality of the generational hatred and bigotry of medicine and the health industry toward chiropractic.