Why is CIRS Care SO EXPENSIVE? Is it a SCAM?!
Let's not beat around the bush- Care for Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (AKA Mold Illness) is expensive. CIRS is a multi-system, multi-symptom disease process. Most patients have been to ten even twenty or thirty doctors looking for answers before they meet with a CIRS provider. CIRS care cannot be addressed in a 5-10 minute medical follow-up that insurance will reimburse for. Let's hope this changes because by treating CIRS we are addressing root causes. And nothing makes me happier than a previously disabled patient returning to work! But our current system is broken and simply will not reimburse for comprehensive care for CIRS.
In addition, quality CIRS providers have completed education with Dr. Shoemaker. There is no board certification for CIRS like there is for many other specialties. Training with Dr. Shoemaker is as close- and as rigorous- as it gets! And once you've completed your training with the godfather of CIRS, you will still be drinking through a continuing education fire hose on the weekly if not the daily. Treating CIRS in not for the lazy or faint of heart. Thankfully most medical providers who treat CIRS have also suffered from CIRS so that only adds fuel to the fire to learn, learn, and learn more. We are forever students on the cutting edge of research. Sadly, some medical providers don't regularly read research which is why medical practice is often 16 years or more behind research.
CIRS treatment is complex. Other disease processes often co-exist or have been tripped off by CIRS. There are also CIRS adjacent issues such as histamine over-expression and Lyme and co-infection, just to name a few. We aren't fully treating a CIRS patient unless we are considering all angles. We want a vital, full remission. Personally, I am not going for a 30% improvement with a patient. You shouldn't settle for those peanuts either.
Lastly, the mundane reality is that I employee three other people in order to be able to do my job. It's the reality of medicine today. This minimizes cost but cost is still greater than I would like it to be. In transparency, I only make about half of what my colleagues that I graduated make on a yearly basis. AND the juice is totally worth the squeeze! I see suffering people put CIRS in remission and return to a life they love. So yes, CIRS care is expensive, but it is not a scam. I pray medicine catches up with research and eventually reimburses more based on outcomes and less based on the revolving door of illness.
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