Medicare
Medicare reimburses ONLY for the SPINAL MANIPULATION portion of a
chiropractic office visit. Medicare requires that prior to your treatment the
chiropractor must perform an EXAMINATION of your spine that establishes
that you have one of the limited conditions that Medicare will pay the
chiropractor to treat. While Medicare requires you to have this chiropractic
exam, they require that THE PATIENT MUST PAY for it. There are other
beneficial services Medicare WILL NOT pay for in a chiropractic office
including massage, heat packs, traction, electrical muscle stimulation and
others. While Medicare's rules are too lengthy and confusing to fully present
here, most commonly in our office it is the Medicare patients responsibility to
pay the following fees:
Initial examination- $100
Each Subsequent treatment visit- Approximately $5-$17
If you have AARP secondary insurance your fee for each treatment visit will vary
from no cost to $10.
If you have Secondary Insurance Other than AARP, the secondary benefits
vary widely from no additional benefit to full coverage of all costs. This can only be
determined on an individual basis. While it is the patients responsibility to
understand their own insurance benefits, if you call us we will extend a good
faith effort to help you determine this.