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Conservative Care/Chiropractic. A contemporary approach to managing care and lowering costs!

Presenter: Dr. Ronald J. Farabaugh

Our mission: To obtain the best outcome, in the shortest period of time, with the lowest cost!

Topic:

“Research and other data”

Why Choose Chiropractic First?

Presented byDr. Ronald J. Farabaugh

• Past Chairman-Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters (CGPP)

• Past President-Central Ohio Chiropractic

• Past President-Ohio State Chiropractic Association (OSCA) 1996-1997

• President: Ohio State Chiropractic Board 2012-2013

• ODG Advisory Board• ACA Wikipedia Committee• ACA Research Committee• Malpractice Expert• Fellow in International College of

Chiropractors

Ronald J. Farabaugh, DC

Q: Can chiropractic achieve better outcomes with less costs?

A: YES!!

“I don’t believe in Chiropractic!!

An evidence-based, cost-effectiveness-related response.

Chiropractic Influence on outcomes and cost. What do others say?

1. ACP2. AMI3. Optum/UHC4. Keeney5. Cleveland Clinic6. University of Pittsburgh7. JAMA8. Sanford Health

Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain

Society 2 October 2007 | Volume 147 Issue 7 | Pages 478-491

• Recommendation 7: For patients who do not improve with self-care

options, clinicians should consider the addition of nonpharmacologic

therapy with proven benefits—for acute low back pain, spinal manipulation; for chronic or subacute low back pain, intensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation, exercise therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, spinal manipulation, yoga, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or progressive relaxation (weak recommendation, moderate-quality)

CLINICAL AND COST OUTCOMES OF AN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE IPA Sarnat, Winterstein JMPT June 2004

• Results: Analysis of clinical and cost outcomes on 21,743 member months over a 4-year period demonstrated decreases of

• 43.0% in hospital admissions• 58.4% hospital days • 43.2% outpatient surgeries and procedures• 51.8% pharmaceutical cost reductions when

compared with normative conventional medicine IPA

CLINICAL UTILIZATION AND COST OUTCOMES FROM AN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE INDEPENDENT PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATION: AN ADDITIONAL 3-YEAR UPDATE

Sarnat, Winterstein, Cambron JMPT May 2007

• Results: Clinical and cost utilization based on 70274 member-months over a 7-year period demonstrated decreases of

• 60.2% in-hospital admissions• 59.0% hospital days• 62.0% outpatient surgeries and procedures, and • 85% pharmaceutical costs • when compared with conventional medicine IPA performance for the

same health maintenance organization product in the same geography and time frame.

Optum Health/UHC

Optum’s Optimal Care Pathway!

Optimal Care Pathway!

A follow up Optum study discover even more important data…

Not only should chiropractic be encouraged initially, but the first ten days are critical if you want to lower costs even more!!

Early Use of a DC…

Results. 1,885 workers, 174 (9.2%) had a lumbar spine surgery within 3 years.

Reduced odds of surgery were observed for those under age 35, women, Hispanics, and those whose first provider was a chiropractor.

42.7% of workers who first saw a surgeon had surgery, in contrast to only 1.5% of those who saw a chiropractor. The multivariate model's AUC was 0.93 (95% CI 0.92-0.95), indicating excellent ability to discriminate between workers who would versus would not have surgery.

Early Predictors of Lumbar Spine Surgery after Occupational Back Injury: Results from a Prospective Study of Workers in Washington State. Keeney et al. Spine 2012 Dec 12.

Cleveland Clinic Low Back Pain Work Flow

Source: Spinal Column 2012-2013

University of Pittsburgh

AMA and Chiropractic!

AMA and Chiropractic!

AMA supports Chiropractic!

JAMA Recommends Chiropractic for Low-Back Pain

According to the JAMA Patient Page of April 24, 2013 on “Low Back Pain”, while many treatments are available for low back pain and often exercises and physical therapy can help, some people benefit from chiropractic therapy or acupuncture. JAMA continues that surgery is not usually needed but may be considered if other therapies have failed.

Source: JAMA. 2013 Apr 24;309(16):1738. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.3046. JAMA patient page. Low back pain. Goodman DM, Burke AE, Livingston EH.

Sanford Health

• Own 39 hospitals and 225 clinics in the upper midwest (ND, SD, MN, and MT).

• Epic’s “One Chart” EMR• Weekly training newsletter: New Best Practice Advisory

(BPA). • Pop-up warning: in absence of red flags MRI should not

be performed until 4-6 weeks of PT or Chiropractic Therapy completed.

• Just told 1360 physicians that PT or DC care is the preferred tx of LBP!!

What has been the result of the decline of chiropractic usage? Answer: doubling of drug intake! Is that the direction we really want to go?

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