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Eliminate Your Headaches with Acupuncture

Headaches Common migraine medicines do not deal with the source of frustrations as well as could have dangerous adverse effects. Acupuncture as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) supply a reliable and also secure technique to soothing frustration discomfort, without triggering hazardous adverse effects.

It is very important to keep in mind that migraine patients are not the only one. Today over fifty million Americans experience some kind of a serious migraine throughout their lives.

One of the most typical means to look for alleviation is by grabbing medications as well as various other drugs. This is great for the brief run, and also could aid you leave discomfort quick. Typical migraine drugs do not resolve the origin reason or creates, as well as when utilized over lengthy durations of time could trigger undesirable side impacts some of which are a lot even worse that enduring with a frustration.

Acupuncture as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) provide a efficient and also risk-free technique to eliminating migraine discomfort, without triggering damaging adverse effects, and also integrate a detailed analysis method that could assist your acupuncturist attend to the origin and also recognize reason or root causes of your migraines.

Assisting You To Understand the Difference.

There are numerous aspects in TCM concept that might play a vital duty in the origin reason or reasons of a migraine. These consist of body constitution, psychological wellness, too much job, social and also workout tasks, inappropriate diet regimen, physical injury as well as hormonal agents.
Your professional will certainly take an in-depth health and wellness background, as well as execute a physical test to figure out just how as well as why your body’s crucial power, or Qi, is out of equilibrium as well as determine exactly what kind of migraine you are experiencing. He or she will certainly likewise try to identify exactly what origin reason(s) are adding to the total issue.
An essential component of acupuncture as well as TCM is the principle of Qi. Qi stagnancy could be the reason of your frustrations.

Throughout therapy, in order to bring back the equilibrium and also circulation of Qi, penalty sterilized needles will certainly be put at details factors along the meridian paths. Based upon your one-of-a-kind signs, your acupuncturist will certainly decide to focus on acupuncture factors connected to details body organs. Later on, a selection of self-care strategies might be suggested to additional accelerate your recovery procedure.

Tracking your triggers: Try to maintain track of when your migraines begin. Migraine headache victims could locate it specifically valuable to maintain a journal of signs and symptoms and also feasible reasons. Stress and anxiety alleviation: Stress places a great deal of stress on the body, as well as could add to lots of kinds of wellness worries, consisting of frustrations.

Normally, acupuncture treatment is very efficient in lowering the regularity and also intensity of numerous kinds of agonizing problems, consisting of frustration discomfort. Dr. Jay Sordean and also The Redwood Clinic in Berkeley, California could assist you eliminate your migraines.

Common frustration medicines do not attend to the origin reason of migraines as well as could have dangerous side results. Usual frustration drugs do not resolve the origin reason or creates, as well as when made use of over lengthy durations of time could trigger undesirable side results some of which are a lot even worse that enduring with a frustration.

There are numerous aspects in TCM concept that could play an essential duty in the origin reason or reasons of a migraine. Qi stagnancy could be the reason of your migraines.

Normally, acupuncture treatment is incredibly reliable in minimizing the regularity as well as extent of lots of kinds of unpleasant problems, consisting of migraine discomfort.

Unpaid Demands of Insurance Carriers

Unpaid Demands of Insurance Carriers

As someone who might have some insurance coverage that claims to “cover” acupuncture services, you might think that your provider is being reasonably compensated. In all but a minority of situations, “in-network” providers are paid very poorly. They are not paid for their expertise, for the time it takes to do a thorough diagnosis or evaluation, nor for the time they spend doing the treatment, for all the insurance verification and billing, for the accounting required, for their overhead, let alone anything left over for take-home.

Seriously, insurance plans and the third party administrators are making huge profits while providers are expected to go bankrupt for the sake of their patients and the insurance plans.

For example, start out with the contracts and policy manuals that the carriers and third party administrators expect providers to read, understand, and follow. Are they paid to review these? No. Are they paid to take the time to understand them? No. All of that is on their free time. No providers in the acupuncture world are on salary if they have to know all of this. And the number of acupuncturists on salary? Infinitesmaly few.

Unpaid Demands of Insurance Carriers

Here is a 4 page document listing only a small number of plans. This mailer is required reading for by providers.  It is just a drop in the bucket of the papers and documents that are supposed to be read by providers and their staff.

Please take the time to read it and understand it. How much time did it take you? How much should you be paid to have to do that? Please let me know.  Because providers get zip for doing so. And if they have staff, they have to pay them to take the time to read it.  Who pays for it?  Not the insurance company.

On the other hand, how much were the writers of this paid to create it? Mucho dinero. Believe me. It is the administrators, the JACO inspectors, the policy wonks, the CEOs who are making millions off of this. But the providers you rely on for help? NOTHING.

And the administrators will blame it all on regulations. Regulations that they created to obfuscate and then blame providers for not following.

Unpaid Demands of Insurance Carriers

And I bet that your insurance premiums are going up astronomically. My personal Kaiser policy is going up 21% this coming year. Is there any corresponding increase in fees paid for treatments done? Ha Ha Ha. The jokes on you if you think that independent providers get an extra cent from the increase.

No, the joke’s on the providers who accept the plan payments. Like The Redwood Clinic. SUCKERS!!!

Is there any increase for even increases in costs? Rather, the fees continue to be cut with more and more demands to do more for free.

Unpaid Demands of Insurance Carriers

Insurance carriers and third party administrators are laughing all the way to the bank. And providers are dropping like flies. That is why there are so few providers accepting insurance. MDs, unless they are part of a medical group associated with a hospital/insurance plan complex.

The truth is, those providers lucky enough to get a job with such a medical group/hospital complex are a rarity in the alternative medicine field. The jobs are rare, and the insiders are all referring their friends to get the insider-employee referral fees. There is no hiring based on experience, it is just new-age nepotism. Speaking from experience. Age discrimination is rampant in this system apparently as well. The MDs I spoke to 2 – 3 years ago were all retiring because the system was starving them out of business. Years of clinical experience are a noose on a resume.

Unpaid Demands of Insurance Carriers

How many plans are there? Unknown, but here is a single sheet of paper distributed that is supposed to be memorized by providers. Hilarious if it weren’t so obviously clear proof that the system is broken.

One online insurance billing and verification system list 7370 insurance payors. Seven Thousand Three Hundred Seventy. What if you personally had to know which to chose to get YOUR salary from? Crazy. No, insane. But that is the system. This list is just the first 50.

The fact is that suggesting any of the above, no matter how based in fact, puts a mark on my chest, a target on my back. Was this the reason I was taken off a Kaiser referral list, in spite of the fact that I was being paid 30% – 100% less than other contracted providers? This was sex discrimmination. And would Kaiser and any of the six executives there answer any questions I sent by certified mail about the reasons for the termination? No way.

Which is sad to me because I have provided excellent service to patients there for years. Numerous patients were very upset that they couldn’t get continued care with me and Kaiser refused to explain to me or them the reasons. They wrote letters on my behalf and Kaiser officials and employees refused to provide any response.

I have also been a member of Kaiser myself for years. Paying huge premiums that have paid for the salaries of executives and middle managers in the Outside Referrals Deparment. What do you think? Should I change to another plan during this time to change Covered California Plans?  Why did the following executives of Kaiser NEVER bother to respond to my letters? Pragya Wagle, Nicole Lipes, John Loftus MD, Deborah Gould MD, Lawrence Hamilton, Anita Zuniga RN, Millicent Brown Hunter RN.

“PEOPLE ABOVE PROFITS” is supposed to be the motto of Kaiser Permanente.  The actions of the leadership are wholly inconsistent with this philosophy in the way they have disregarded a very loyal consultant of 20 years.

 Tags: Pragya Wagle, Nicole Lipes, John Loftus MD, Deborah Gould MD, Lawrence Hamilton, Anita Zuniga RN, Millicent Brown Hunter RN.