Thanks for the link, I was interested in this.
I was talking to somebody who had written an article on the worker's comp problems in CA and he thought that Chiropractors weren't an important factor. His figure was that about 4% of the workers comp medical reimbursements went to Chiropractors and he could see cutting that to 2% with some tightening.
The biggest problem, as I understand it, in CA is probably the double whammy of allowing liberal inclusion so that even problems only vaguely related to the actual injury can be treated under worker's comp and allowing workers comp service providers to bill at rates higher than HMO rates. So the worker's comp system gets burdened with a lot of medical claims only marginally related to the injury because service providers can make more money treating them under worker's comp than under other insurance.
That's not to say that the chiropractors aren't a problem. Just by the nature of chiropracty one would expect abuses. I suppose it's politically impossible, but I don't think chiropracty should be reimbursed by worker's comp at all. Or maybe if employess want the option of going to a chiropractor they should be required to pay part of their worker's comp premium.
