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In This Issue: Insurance companies are still denying care for children. I just received another letter forwarded to me from an insurance company in Massachusetts that is denying care for children. We just saw this happen with United Healthcare (UHC). As some chiropractic groups wrote letters to UHC to dispute it, the majority of the profession sat back and said, "It's taken care of, I don't have to do anything." We are fooling ourselves to think that a mere letter and response from UHC saying they will look into it and rescind their denial (for now) is enough for us to settle back and relax. It reminds me of asking the fox to guard the hen house. This has not gone away—nor will it. More and more insurance companies are denying care for children. They insist they have done literature searches and there is none to substantiate care. They are holding us to standards beyond what the medical profession is held to. Unfair? Yes! Will it just go away? No. Can we fight the conglomerate with political action? Dream on. Do you think our funding can come close to theirs? So here is our choice: we can treat the symptom by simply disputing their denials, writing more letters of appeal and hoping for the best, or we can produce research—until we produce the research to substantiate care, we are not getting to the cause. This is a basic principle of chiropractic...getting to the cause—right? We need the research! Talk is cheap. Right now, we need to walk the walk. If you are not yet participating in the ICPA/PBRN Research Project for Children's Safety and Effectiveness I can only ask: WHY NOT? I cannot accept any excuse that will justify passivity when our rights to care for children is being threatened. I can liken this to our frustration when patients do not follow through with our recommendations, when they do not take the initiative to do their part. The ICPA has put together the machine to handle the data collection, its compilation and writing it up for publication. What we need is the data! That means your participation—not the D.C. down the street, or the one in the in the next state—but YOU! Right now —this minute—you need to sign up for our children's PBRN and collect data. We have another 7 short weeks to collect the data and we need ALL of US to participate. Once this project is completed we have others to address all of the unwarranted reasons why insurance companies are denying care—your care! Sign up for the Children's PBRN Sign up for the Children's PBRN here: Here is why your immediate participation is urgent: View our preliminary data here: Read more about our PBRN here: Here is what one of our participants says about the ICPA/PBRN : "Nobody benefits from chiropractic more than kids, but we need the parents to know this, not just the chiropractors. It's great to see an organization step up and gather the research to show chiropractic's safety and its benefits for kids. All wellness chiropractors should be a part of this." - Dr. Dale Andelkovic, Redlands CA Many, many blessings, Doctor's Site: www.icpa4kids.com Please forward this PedEx to colleagues who would be interested. Thanks! It is not, and never will be, our intention to send unsolicited email or spam of any kind. Please accept our apologies if you have received this email without subscribing to our list. If you do not wish to receive further issues of PedEx, please unsubscribe at the bottom of this email. . Also be sure to sign up for our two other e-Newsletters: Family Wellness First (for your patients) and ICPA Research Updates. You can do so here: www.icpa4kids.com/pedEx |