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Massage Insurance Billing Resources

Can You Bill Insurance in your state?  Please let me know which insurance plans you can and can not bill.  Also looking for information on each states legislative actions that are working toward getting massage accepted by health insurance.

Which Insurance can you bill  – PIP/MedPay (car accidents), workers compensation, Health Insurance

What is happening in your state as far as getting massage covered by Health Insurance?

What is your Local AMTA chapter doing?

What are other CAM providers doing?

What is the Office of the Insurance Commissioner doing?

Are you licensed as a health care provider -if so where are the laws on this in your state.

***Information provided below has been collected through various Facebook discussions on this topic and are subject to change at any moment.

HCP = Licensed as a Health Care Provider.  Check to see if you are by contacting your state massage board.  This list in incomplete. If your state is not listed as a HCP it is mainly because I haven’t found the answer yet.

Alabama

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Alaska

  HCP – Yes

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance – Premera Blue Cross

Arizona

Car Accidents  :  Yes

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Arkansas

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

California

Car Accidents – Yes

Workers Comp. – Yes

Health Insurance

Colorado

Car Accidents   – Yes

Workers Comp.   – Yes

Health Insurance  – BCBS

Connecticut

HCP – Licensed under the Board of Health
https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_368a.htm#sec_19a-14a

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.  – YES  (need resource)

Health Insurance

Delaware

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Florida

     HCP’s – Yes

Car Accidents – No PIP billing allowed.

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance  – Yes .

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View+Statutes&SubMenu=1&App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=massage&URL=0600-0699%2F0627%2FSections%2F0627.6619.html

FL State Board of Massage:  http://floridasmassagetherapy.gov/

Georgia

    HCP – Yes

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Hawaii

Car Accidents – Yes

Workers Comp.  – Yes

Health Insurance – Working on it – http://www.hawaiimassage.org/healthcare-integration/

Idaho

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Illinois

Car Accidents  – Yes

Workers Comp. – Yes

Health Insurance

Starting Sept 2014 – BCBS will pay massage therapists.

Indiana

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Iowa

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Kansas

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Kentucky

Car Accidents – Yes

Workers Comp. – Yes

Health Insurance

Louisiana

HCP – NO

Car Accidents – massage must be done by a chiropractor (need more info on this)

Workers Comp. -massage must be done by a chiropractor (need more info on this)

Health Insurance

Maine

HCP – No

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Maryland

     HCP – Yes

Car Accidents – Yes

Workers Comp. – Yes

Health Insurance – No.

Massachusetts

HCP – NO (as per Board of Massage)

Car Accidents – yes – PIP

Workers Comp – yes

Health Insurance – Mass Laborers Health & Welfare Fund

Michigan

HCP – Yes

Car Accidents – Yes

Workers Comp.  – Yes

Health Insurance

Minnesota

HCP – No (as confirmed by AMTA-MN)

Car Accidents –  Yes

Workers Comp.- Yes

Health Insurance – NO

 

Mississippi

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Missouri

HCP – YES

Title XXII OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS Chapter 324

  324.240.  Definitions.

(6)  “Massage therapist”, a health care practitioner who provides or offers to provide massage therapy, as provided in sections 324.240 to 324.275, to any person at no cost or for a fee, monetary or otherwise, implying that the massage therapist is trained, experienced and licensed in massage therapy, and who holds a current, valid license to practice massage therapy;

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Montana

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

http://bsd.dli.mt.gov/license/bsd_boards/lmt_board/board_page.asp

Nebraska

Car Accidents – massage must be done by a chiropractor (need more info on this)

Workers Comp. -massage must be done by a chiropractor  (need more info on this)

Health Insurance

Nevada

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

New Hampshire

HCP – No (confirmed by their board of massage)

Car Accidents

Workers Comp. According to NHDOL, NH State does not approve or disapprove providers, including massage therapists, for WC.  NHDoL leaves it up to individual insurance companies.

Health Insurance – Not yet.  At this time, NH State legislature does not yet consider MTs as health professionals.

New Jersey

HCP – NO (according to AMTA-NJ)

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance – Cigna, Aetna, American Specialty Network

 

New Mexico

Car Accidents – If there is MED Pay – Yes.

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

New York

     HCP’s – Yes

Car Accidents – Yes, and vase their fees on the state workers compensation fees.

Workers Comp. – NO or possibly need to have direct supervision of an MD to bill

Health Insurance

North Carolina

    HCP  – Yes (although the Board of Massage there does not know.)

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

North Dakota

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Ohio

 HCP – Yes

Car Accidents – yes, no prescription required by law, although more insurance companies are requiring it for payment.  Do not allow doctor to dictate your sessions by prescribing number of sessions, or limited diagnosis, etc, because they have no idea what muscles have been affected or what it takes to heal.

Workers Comp. – yes, must be BWC certified, easy to become certified.

Health Insurance – No payments to LMTs, BUt, will pay chiropractors and physical therapists billing for massage therapy, which is SO wrong.

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4731.15

Oklahoma

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Oregon

HCP – Yes

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

AMTA-OR  http://amta-or.org/

OR Board of Massage – http://www.oregon.gov/obmt/Pages/index.aspx

OR OIC – http://www.oregon.gov/DCBS/insurance/Pages/index.aspx

File a complaint with the OIC  – http://www.oregon.gov/DCBS/insurance/gethelp/Pages/fileacomplaint.aspx

Pennsylvania 

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Rhode Island

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

South Carolina

HCP – NO

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

South Dakota

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Tennessee

HCP – Yes (confirmed)

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Texas

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance  – BCBS,

Utah

HCP – NO

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Vermont

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Virginia

      HCP – Yes

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

http://www.dhp.virginia.gov/nursing/nursing_laws_regs.htm

Washington

HCP – Yes – http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=48.43.005

 

Car Accidents:  Yes with prescriptions

Workers Comp. : Yes.  www.lni.wa.gov,  http://www.lni.wa.gov/claimsIns/Providers/

Health Insurance: Yes.  Every Category Law

WA DC

   HCP – Yes

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

 

West Virginia

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Wisconsin

HCP – Yes –  https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/146/81/1

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

Wyoming

Car Accidents

Workers Comp.

Health Insurance

***Information provided below has been collected through various Facebook discussions on this topic and are subject to change at any moment.

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