{"id":1053008,"date":"2010-12-11T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/acupuncture-is-popular-with-patients-but-insurance-does-not-cover-it\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:28","slug":"acupuncture-is-popular-with-patients-but-insurance-does-not-cover-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/acupuncture-is-popular-with-patients-but-insurance-does-not-cover-it.php","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture Is Popular with Patients but Insurance Does Not Cover It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f57f1_180px-Acupuncture1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f57f1_180px-Acupuncture1-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p><div>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/08\/health\/08patient.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">NYTimes<\/a>:<\/div><div><\/div><div>Because her insurer did not cover acupuncture, Ms. Kumar had to pay for the $70 weekly treatments she hoped would put her cycle on a more normal schedule.<\/div><div><\/div><p>Acupuncture remains a largely out-of-pocket form of health care. Sessions with an acupuncturist run about $65 to $120, depending on where you live (and some leading acupuncturists charge as much as $300). Most ailments require at least three treatments, while some chronic issues like arthritis might require biweekly or monthly sessions, depending on the situation.<\/p><div><\/div><div>In a 2007 survey, 3.1 million adults reported using acupuncture in the previous 12 months, up from 2.1 million in a 2002 survey.<\/div><div>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/08\/health\/08patient.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Patient Money - Acupuncture May Help, but You&rsquo;ll Need to Pay<\/a> - NYTimes.com.<\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/acupuncture-can-spread-serious-diseases.html\">Acupuncture can spread serious diseases: bacterial infections, hepatitis B and C, even HIV<\/a><\/div><div>Image source: Needles being inserted into a patient's skin, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Acupuncture1-1.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>, public domain.<\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Sessions with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/acupuncture-is-popular-with-patients-but-insurance-does-not-cover-it.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}