Who pays: Insurance coverage for alternative therapies

Esther Y. Dell

doi:10.1300/J381v11n04_08

Who pays: Insurance coverage for alternative therapies

Esther Y. Dell

Harrell Health Sciences Library - Hershey

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Abstract

Costs for complementary and alternative medicine for both treatment and prevention have been paid mostly out-of-pocket by consumers. Insurance providers are looking at the feasibility of including coverage of different therapies as a result of customer demand as well as state regulations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	89-95
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1300/J381v11n04_08
State	Published - 2007

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Health(social science)

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