What's With Medicare?

The unsettling news from the Medicare people (congress...the argument over the budget...) is that reimbursements are going down. For the NUCCA chiropractor, that means the mandated charge for an adjustment (the only payable service in the Medicare program for the chiropractic office) is sinking way, way below most doc's break-even point.
Some docs at this point are going to simply jump ship and have a big goodbye party for their patients who are medicare beneficiaries. But that's not why I got into this work.
Upper cervical chiropractic is all about taking care of people.
It's about restoring the potential for health, opening up the channels of communication between the brain and the body (something all vertebrates depend upon). On a personal level, it's about Rosalie getting off her pain medications, it's about Mary's getting rid of her chronic asthma, it's about my 86 year-old father-in-law getting his legs back under him. It's even about living more fully in retirement!
So as the insurance landscape becomes different (sometimes it feels like a river of pirahnas), we are holding our attention focused on delivering the best in upper cervical chiropractic care, and other types of care as individuals require, to the best of our ability.
1st Step Chiropractic, S.C. Rockford, IL 815-398-4500