Abril Reck is a Family Nurse Practitioner, licensed nationally by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and is a California licensed acupuncturist. She graduated with honors with a BS in Psychology, BS in Nursing and MS of Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a master's degree from Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing as well as a MS of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from South Baylo University. She has completed the requirements for Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Abril currently see patients in her private practice with a focus on stress and burnout, functional medicine, and women's health while also continuing to practice as a nurse practitioner in urgent care medicine. She enjoys traveling, spending time with her rescue English bulldog and raising medicinal herbs in her garden.
When we talk about fertility, the focus is often placed on the ovaries and the uterus. Yet sperm-related factors contribute to nearly half of all cases of infertility. Whether someone is navigating fertility care alone or with a partner, and whether building a family through intercourse, IVI, IUI or IVF, it’s vital to include sperm health in the picture.
With some plans – and it starts with Medicare (CMS) – there is a payment protocol that may be referred to as a multi-therapy discount, but its official name is the multiple-procedure payment reduction (MPPR). If a health care provider performs multiple procedures during a single patient encounter, Medicare (and many commercial insurers) typically will pay “full price” for only the highest-valued procedure.
Our team of authors offer this paper (and this descriptive AT series) as a support for you as a professional, practitioner and member of the acupuncture community at large. We hope that it will serve to further the needs of acupuncturists everywhere and also act as a guide for those wishing to learn about Acupuncture Medicine – patients, healthcare decision makers, policymakers, and other stakeholders.