Medicare excluded chiropractors from its remote therapeutic monitoring platform for musculoskeletal providers, but Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, and Cigna are welcoming them in. The speaker argues chiropractors should adopt RTM anyway because it generates better patient outcomes and gives insurers proof of chiropractic care's value.
If you're thinking of, hey, I take Medicare, let's use this. Unfortunately, even though Medicare created this for musculoskeletal providers, as chiropractors, we need to create better outcomes and data for them to take us as an RTM platform. So we're excluded from Medicare, but a lot of other commercial insurance like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, all of those types of insurance companies are very friendly for chiropractors to use RTM. In fact, they really want us to use it, and I think we should because the more we're utilizing this platform, the more we're going to be able to not only get better outcomes and collect outcomes, but it's going to be able to show the insurance the value of chiropractic and how we can be utilized to increase the fees.
