Medicare and Medicaid for Chiropractic Care

Medicare and Medicaid both have coverage for chiropractic care, but only for the actual subluxation. For other services—such as physical therapy, evaluation, and the use of orthopedic devices—the cost will have to be shouldered by the patient. Both Medicare and Medicaid require at least three factors to be fulfilled to cover chiropractic care: patients need to have a health problem, a recommendation from a general physician, and a vertebral subluxation. First, the patient must have an existing health problem, particularly a musculoskeletal...

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Getting a Chiropractor for Your Back Pain

When it comes to body troubles, it's easy enough to simply let a headache or a stomachache take its course. Most of the time these are temporary, isolated cases anyway, and at their worst you can usually just take pain medication to get through them. Back pain, however, is a different matter, one that you'd likely want to talk with a chiropractor about. Why does back pain warrant attention? Simple. Chronic back pain has the potential to drastically affect a person's lifestyle. This isn't to say that other types of aches and pain don't, but...

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