"Patients that receive chiropractic care, either solely or in conjunction with medical care experience significantly lower health-care costs." --Stano/Medstat Research

Miron Stano, PhD, Oakland University, conducted a study comparing the health-care costs for chiropractic and medical patients. The database he used came from the records of MEDSTAT Systems, Inc., a health benefits management consulting firm which processes insurance claims for many of the country's largest corporations. The database was comprised of 395,641 patients, 42,215 of which were Michigan patients. After reviewing claims paid over a two-year period, he concluded:

Patients who receive chiropractic care, either solely or in conjunction with medical care, experienced "significantly lower health-care costs... on the order of $1,000 each over the two-year period" than those who received only medical care. Specifically, total insurance payments were $1,138 (30% higher) for those who elected medical care only. The lower costs for chiropractic patients were attributal both to lower in-patient and out-patient costs, and indicated that "chiropractic treatment substitutes for other forms of out-patient care."