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Hundreds of Millions in Medicare Payments for Chiropractic Services Did Not Comply With Medicare Requirements
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Tags: chiropractic, politics, manual therapy, treatment, controversy, debunkery, spine
original abstract†Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.
For 2013, an estimated $359 million in Medicare payments for chiropractic services did not comply with Medicare requirements.
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