Chiropractic Care Could Reduce Health Costs, Says Report

Though most health insurers include chiropractic services and 46 states have mandates requiring insurers cover those services, Clum says insurers are not adequately promoting chiropractics as a care option. Insurers should market those services as a way to improve clinical effectiveness and cut costs. But that's quite different from the way insurers currently promote chiropractic services.

"That is a totally different orientation that we haven't seen on a broad-base level," he says.

Clum says insurers should rethink their thoughts about chiropractic services because that kind of care meshes with the belief that improved health doesn't come merely from a prescription pad or in a bottle.

"It's about how we're living our lives and taking responsibility for our lives. This is absolutely consistent with that emerging thinking," he says.

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