As of January of 2018, Ohio medicaid patients will now have acupuncture performed by a licensed acupuncturist covered for their low back pain and migraines. These are two areas where there has been very active research into acupuncture over the past 15 years, and the results are in: it works great, and costs less. In a country faced with an opioid epidemic brought on in significant part by the over-prescribing of these dangerous drugs, acupuncture is an essential, compassionate and effective strategy for pain management whose time has come.

Write your representatives here in Albany, New York and your health insurance company to let them know that acupuncture is proven as safe, effective and very low cost, and that you deserve to have it covered! If Ohio can do it, we can too!