I have understood for years that patients can use their Health Savings Accounts (HSA) for purchasing dietary supplements or herbal remedies that I recommend for treatment. This is the case also for Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA). As a licensed Acupuncturist in the state of California, I am called a “primary care provider” and it is within my scope of practice to “prescribe” herbs and supplements.
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\nHowever, I have been told by many patients that they have been told that my supplement or herbal prescriptions would not be covered by their HSA or FSA. What I did in the past was give patients a “superbill”, which is a insurance bill or form. It shows my licensing information, my NPI# (National Provider Identifier), and has CPT codes for procedures performed (in my case, acupuncture), and diagnosis codes (for example, cervicalgia, lumbago, sciatica, knee pain, etc). However, now I have a formal form that I can give patients along with a superbill, which will be signed by me to give to the insurance company, or service company of your HSA or FSA.<\/p>\n
For reference, this form can be found here: I have understood for years that patients can use their Health Savings Accounts (HSA) for purchasing dietary supplements or herbal remedies that I recommend for treatment. This is the case also for Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA). As a licensed Acupuncturist in the state of California, I am called a “primary care provider” and it is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,100,141,26],"tags":[162,702,701,700,703],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture-news","category-chinese-medicine-news","category-news","category-products","tag-chinese-herbs","tag-dietary-supplements","tag-fsa","tag-hsa","tag-insurance","category-15-id","category-100-id","category-141-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_6013.jpg?fit=2992%2C2992&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQuRZ-14L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nReimbursement Form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"