{"id":6309,"date":"2021-02-10T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:27:09","slug":"medicare-requirement-with-acupuncture-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/medicare-requirement-with-acupuncture-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Requirement with Acupuncture Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMS has issued a National Coverage Determination that covers acupuncture services for chronic low back pain. If you or anyone in your practice is contracted to treat Health New England Medicare Advantage members and is licensed to practice acupuncture, please notify us if you haven\u2019t done so already.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are not familiar with the requirements, below are the guidelines:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Physicians (as defined in 1861(r)(1) of the Social Security Act (the Act)) may furnish acupuncture in accordance with applicable state requirements.<br \/>\n\u2022 Physician assistants (PAs), nurse practitioners (NPs)\/clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) (as identified in 1861(aa)(5) of the Act), and auxiliary personnel may furnish acupuncture if they meet all applicable state requirements and have:<\/p>\n<p class=\"tab\">\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; A masters or doctoral level degree in acupuncture or Oriental Medicine from a school accredited by the Accreditation Commission on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM); and,<\/p>\n<p class=\"tab\">\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; A current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice acupuncture in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the requirements, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/medicare-coverage-database\/details\/ncd-details.aspx?NCDId=373&amp;ncdver=1&amp;bc=AAAAIAAAAAAA&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS has issued a National Coverage Determination that covers acupuncture services for chronic low back pain. If you or anyone in your practice is contracted to treat Health New England Medicare Advantage members and is licensed to practice acupuncture, please notify us if you haven\u2019t done so already. If you are not familiar with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/acupunture.jpg?fit=2121%2C1414","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-1DL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/6315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}