Effects of Expanded Coverage for Chiropractic Services on Medicare Costs in a CMS Demonstration.

BACKGROUND:Moderately convincing evidence supports the benefits of chiropractic manipulations for low back pain. Its effectiveness in other applications is less well documented, and its cost-effectiveness is not known. These questions led the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to condu...

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Main Authors: William B Stason, Grant A Ritter, Timothy Martin, Jeffrey Prottas, Christopher Tompkins, Donald S Shepard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4771157?pdf=render