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CROOKED CHIROPRACTORS

Chiropractors have been arrested for stealing millions from insurance companies using fraudulent claims. Some of these doctors pay up to $500 in referral fees to most anyone who sends them patients. Patients can be rounded-up by skillful telemarketers who specialize in scouring local police reports on traffic accidents then calling the victims involved in the accidents and offering them a free medical exam just in case the victims may be injured and not even know it! Some phone "pros" have even been accused of trying to talk accident victims into going in for the chiropractor's exam and check-up even if the victims claim they were unhurt in the accident!

Once the accident victim shows up at one of the crooked chiropractors' offices for the free exam, the doctor may just possibly find all kinds of bone "misalignments", that many of us typically walk around with everyday anyway. Of course, the medical recommendation may tend to treat the misalignments.

Each patient may be worth up to $10,000 in medical insurance claims for the crooked chiropractor. It is the insuran ce consumer that really ends up paying these costs through higher insurance premiums!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: ABC-TV 20/20 8/25/95 MIAMI HERALD NEWSPAPER 5/10/96

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