| Some physicians have a hard time in | | | | billing practices. They are not, however, |
| identifying alternative medicine treatments | | | | very willing to pay for alternative medicine |
| because they were not taught them at medical | | | | treatments because they are not considered to |
| school. They must learn to rely on the text | | | | be acceptable forms of treatment for any type |
| from various researchers who have made it | | | | of illness that would be covered under |
| their life work to study such things as the | | | | regular medical billing purposes. |
| therapeutic alternative medicine treatments | | | | |
| that come from herbs, and those that come | | | | Patients must rely on their own sources of |
| from various massages. | | | | funding to pay for the alternative medicine |
| | | | treatments that are used for weeks or months |
| When identifying alternative medicine | | | | at a time. Identifying alternative medicine |
| treatments, physicians will typically use a | | | | treatments that they can afford is the hard |
| hunch, and try some treatments that go right | | | | part for many patients that are under the |
| alongside what they have learned but are not | | | | care of qualified but unrecognized licensed |
| clearly written in their medical journals. | | | | caregivers. |
| They might find that acupuncture treatments | | | | |
| will help patients with chronic pain, so they | | | | Most of the alternative medicine patients |
| give them the usual pain killers to help ease | | | | must deal with the standards of practice of |
| the pain a bit, and make a recommendation | | | | an unregulated industry, and the patient is |
| that they find a healer who specializes in | | | | open to all sorts of unregulated pricing |
| applying acupuncture therapies to various | | | | structures at any time during the course of |
| parts of the body. | | | | treatment. If all alternative medicine |
| | | | treatments were covered under the auspices of |
| The physicians in India are much more likely | | | | the same standards of care received in many |
| to begin identifying alternative medicine | | | | hospitals, then it would keep most of the |
| treatments when they see their patients for | | | | alternative medicine caregivers from being |
| the first time. Some alternative medicine is | | | | able to charge what they want to for the |
| common practice among foreign doctors and is | | | | services that they provide. |
| considered quite acceptable as a form of | | | | |
| treatment for a variety of illnesses. They | | | | Until then, alternative care patients are at |
| will perform the customary office exams to | | | | the mercy of an unregulated industry and have |
| get a complete review of all symptoms before | | | | no choice but to pay the high prices that are |
| they begin the alternative medicine | | | | being charged for alternative medicine |
| therapies. | | | | treatments. Some patients are very hesitant |
| | | | on identifying alternative medicine |
| Many insurance companies are very good in | | | | treatments as any type of complementary care |
| identifying alternative medicine treatments | | | | anyone because their treatment on the humane |
| that are billed to patients through regular | | | | level is far from complimentary. |