TCM - medicaid covering acupuncture: pros & cons?

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You mean besides being required to ake 18-25 dollars for a visit and not

being allowed to accept any higher from anyone else? Same goes for any national

health plan. If we are not in it, we will do increasingly well, since we will be

the only ones not being required to ration service who can actually get

people well effectively and efficiently, and we will finally be given first

chance!

As it is, we need to make sure every patient who is on Medicare fills out and

signs an " Advance Beneficiary of Noncoverage (ABN) " form, OMB form CMS-R-131

(02/08).

Thsi wil keep you out of hot water regarding Medicare, most likely.

 

David Molony

 

In a message dated 3/6/09 7:14:46 PM, acukath writes:

 

 

> i noticed that aaaom is listing one of their primary goals as getting

> medicaid coverage for acupuncture. i'm wondering what you all see as the

> pros and cons of this issue?

>

> kath

>

>

 

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Hi All,

 

I am not for sure but I do think that also when you accept medicaid and medicare

you can only treat one person at a time in order to bill the person for their

full treatment.  I am only basing this on Outpatient Rehab Therapy.  I know that

when a patient comes in for outpatient by law they cannot bill medicare for the

full time if they are seeing more than one patient.  So even then you are not

making any money.

 

But like I said the rules could be totally different for acupuncture.

 

 

Tangela

 

 

Tangela Bass, M.Ac

Acupuncture Detox Specialist

 

" For the mind to flower it has to go

beyond what it knows " -Mother Meera

 

 

 

 

 

--- On Fri, 3/6/09, acuman1 <acuman1 wrote:

 

 

acuman1 <acuman1

Re: TCM -  medicaid covering acupuncture: pros & cons?

acukath, alumni

Cc: Chinese Traditional Medicine

Friday, March 6, 2009, 9:05 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

You mean besides being required to ake 18-25 dollars for a visit and not

being allowed to accept any higher from anyone else? Same goes for any national

health plan. If we are not in it, we will do increasingly well, since we will be

the only ones not being required to ration service who can actually get

people well effectively and efficiently, and we will finally be given first

chance!

As it is, we need to make sure every patient who is on Medicare fills out and

signs an " Advance Beneficiary of Noncoverage (ABN) " form, OMB form CMS-R-131

(02/08).

Thsi wil keep you out of hot water regarding Medicare, most likely.

 

David Molony

 

In a message dated 3/6/09 7:14:46 PM, acukath (AT) gmail (DOT) com writes:

 

> i noticed that aaaom is listing one of their primary goals as getting

> medicaid coverage for acupuncture. i'm wondering what you all see as the

> pros and cons of this issue?

>

> kath

>

>

 

Anyone who thinks that someone is normal, just doesn't know them well enough.

(I forget who said that)

 

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