Ep 75: Dr. Dennis Short

That's a big problem.

But let's face it, too.

You had dabbled into a blog about insurance.

Our profession has not seen any insurance reimbursement increases.

In Kentucky, the last one we had was 2003.

Can you imagine making the same money in 2026 as you did in 2003, 23 years later?

And worse than that, with inflation and the expenses of everything else going up, and yet we have a hard time getting chiropractors to embrace the idea that they do need to take a look at their fees.

I'll share this with you.

We actually did a survey of 10 clinics in Texas.

They have a published workers' comp fee schedule.

It's there for everybody to see.

And of these 10 clinics, you're just going to blow your mind, 100% of them were We're not even charging what insurance allowed for the E&M codes.

Something like 80% were charging below the manipulation or adjustment codes, and something like 50% were below the allowables for x-rays.

And then you have a conversation with the docs and say, you know, Everybody's griping, complaining about not having enough revenue.

Why don't you just at least charge

what the insurance company thinks you're worth?

Yeah.

But they don't know where to go to find this stuff.

But there's this resistance because we're healers.

We love to help people.

And we think that by raising our fees, we're not going to be able to help as many people.

And it can certainly get to a point where that may occur.

But the reality is I don't care how good of a chiropractor you are.

If you can't keep your doors open, you can't help anybody.

That's just the way it is.