Wiki Cupping therapy

[Cheryl O]

Does anyone know anything about reimbursement from Medicare for Cupping therapy? I have an acupuncturist asking for authorization for this type of therapy, but I am finding very little information. Is this an accepted form of treatment? I code for worker's comp and we follow Medicare guidelines.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Cheryl

 

[insight]

Not sure about medicare however, we bill cupping to workers comp & mva's and it is usually covered. We use cpt code 97016.
Hope that helps.

 

[andrea_perrego@hotmail.com]

Cupping/Tui-Na/Gua-Sha

Our office has Acupuncture and wants to bill 97140 for Cupping/Tui-Na/Gua-Sha, CPT Book states 97139, which is the correct code to bill.

Thanks.