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Table 1 Cumulative number of services, total cost, benefits paid, and out-of-pocket cost by manual therapy profession in Australia during 2008–2017

From: Service utilisation trends in the manual therapy professions within the Australian private healthcare setting between 2008 and 2017

 

Chiropractic

Osteopathy

Physiotherapy

Total

2008–2017

 Number of services

92,080,447

7,657,460

98,846,368

198,584,275

 Total cost

$5,317,361,571

$641,468,929

$6,806,953,283

$12,765,783,784

 Benefits paid

$2,747,206,748

$271,923,007

$3,433,029,328

$6,452,159,084

 Out-of-pocket cost

$2,570,154,823

$369,545,922

$3,373,923,955

$6,313,624,700