Can you get massage therapy covered by your health insurance?!
Question: I am interested in getting massage treatments and was wondering if they are covered by health insurance. Or how can I get them covered? Thanks in advance.
Answers: I am interested in getting massage treatments and was wondering if they are covered by health insurance. Or how can I get them covered? Thanks in advance.
It depends completely on your insurance. Mine covers massage, but it is part of treatment at a chiropractor's office with interdisciplinary care. So as long as the doc puts it in my treatment plan it is covered. It has to be used for a specific problem, for me it is back pain
Look at your insurance book, or website. More and more insurances are covering it as an adjunct to chiropractic care and physical therapy
Yes, it depends on your health insurance though.
Some will pay for massage therapy while others wont. Check your health plan to find out.
And if it does not cover it you would have to get a note from your doctor saying you need regular or ongoing massage treatments and this will be an ongoing thing for a while and then your health insurance will take it under review to let you know if they will approve paying for it or not.
Go to the PT and get the PT tech to give you a massage on the PT time!!!!
Your Doctor must prescribe it for you. He would have to contact your insurance company to say that the treatment is necessary for your condition, if you have one!
As a generalization, regular health insurance rarely covers massage therapy performed by a massage therapist even when recommended by your doctor in the form of a prescription.
As one person suggested, many insurance companies will cover massage if performed by a PT or OT as a part of their treatment plans, but in such instances, don't expect an hour on the table; you'll get probably 15 minutes of massage each session, with the other 45 minutes devoted to something like exercise or e-stim. If your are lucky maybe you'll get 30 minutes on the table, but that's rare.
If you were injured in an automobile accident, those injuries caused by that accident which need massage are probably covered by your car insurance. They almost always pay for a massage by a massage therapist and you'll probably get the hour on the table for a massage.
Hope some of this helps
http://www.a-body-for-living.com/co-pays...
Find a Chiropractic office with a massage therapist. They will be able to bill it in 15 minute increments if medically necessary. But you still will have to verify benefits. Why not just go to a massage therapy school. Better prices for the rub.
Insurance doesn't like to pay for massages. Sometimes they will if it is related to a car accident or work mans comp. But even then they will question it. Go to a massage therapy school, the prices are generally half of what you would pay elsewhere.