Madison Kreikemeier, OTS
Occupational Therapy Student
Creighton University
Madison Kreikemeier is a second year occupational therapy student working toward a doctorate degree in occupational therapy at Creighton University. She has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has previous experience working in the healthcare field as a nurse aid in a rehabilitative hospital.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background: Excessive amounts of money in healthcare are wasted due to duplicated or unnecessary health screenings. For example, an estimated four million dollars was spent on wasteful or likely wasteful imaging for low back pain, a commonly treated condition within healthcare. 2 Research shows that two-thirds of people will present with low back pain at some point throughout their lifetime, but 20-50% of high-tech imaging procedures fail to provide information that improves the patient’s condition, representing unnecessary services. 1  Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the…