 | First visit; $60 |
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| Subsequent visits;$45 |
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| Reduced fees are available to holders of (Australian) Health Care Cards |
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| Under Australian legislation, chiropractic care is covered by 'Workers Compensation', '3rd Party' and 'Veterans' insurance schemes. Additionally, all full private health funds cover chiropractic care. |
It should be noted that the cost for chiropractic care may vary depending on country, state or city. However, regardless of these variations, chiropractic has consistently been demonstrated to be the most economical and effective form of spinal health care.
 | "By every test of cost and effectiveness, the general weight of evidence shows chiropractic to provide important benefits, at economical costs. Additionally, these benefits are achieved with apparently minimal, even negligible, impacts on the costs of health insurance." (Shifrin, L.G. Mandated Health Insurance Coverage for Chiropractic Treatment: An Economic Assessment, with Implications for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The College of William & Mary, and Medical College of Virginia, Jan. 1992.) |
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| A study comparing medical and chiropractic care for identical back injuries found that the number of work days lost was ten times higher for medical patients than for chiropractic patients. In addition, compensation costs for work time lost averaged $68 for chiropractic versus $668 for medical patients. (Journal of Occupational Medicine, August 1991, Vol. 33, Number 8.) |
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| Analysis of a database of 2 million patient claims found that, for care of the most common neuromusculoskeletal conditions by all health disciplines, "chiropractic users tend to have substantially lower total health care costs." (Journal of American Health Policy, Nov/Dec 1992, Vol. 2, No. 6.) |
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| "...chiropractic management of low-back pain is more cost-effective than medical management." (Manga, P. et. al., The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Chiropractic Management of Low-Back Pain, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health, Kenilworth Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 1993.) |
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| "There is, therefore, economic support for the use of chiropractic in low back pain, though the obvious clinical improvement in pain and disability attributable to chiropractic treatment is in itself an adequate reason..." (Meade, T.W., et al., "Low Back Pain of Mechanical Origin: Randomised Comparison of Chiropractic and Hospital Outpatient Treatment," British Medical Journal, Vol. 300, 1990, pp. 1431-1437) |
