Kim Blaufuss is a practitioner, author and academic completing her studies at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. Kim owns and runs a six-figure business. She works with individuals who are concerned their response to stress may get them fired. She helps them overcome their emotions and change their past. She is also the author of Caregivers Survival Guide: How to Eliminate Stress in 30 Minutes With Chinese Medicine and Other Useful Tools; and a YouTuber (bestacupuncturellc) and blogger (Best Acupuncture, LLC), sharing the wonderful world of classical Chinese medicine to help improve our world.
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.