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 Guidelines for Requesting a Physician Referral1. Begin by discussing the potential referral with a representative of your insurance company. Learn just how your insurance company wants the referral structured.2. Your insurance company may accept referrals from Medical Doctors, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Nurse Practitioners, Physician's Assistants, Naturopaths or Acupuncturists. Before seeking a referral from any practitioner check with your insurance company first to see what they will accept. 3. Insurance companies are interested in my license as practitioner, not the particular modalities I use; Rolfing, Visceral Manipulation, CranioSacral Therapy, etc. In writing the referral the referring practitioner may name a particular modality and must also use the word massage. It is better if the prescription mentions me by name, but is not absolutely necessary. 4. It is easy to over-treat with the kinds of work I do, either by giving too long a treatment, or by having treatments too close together. At least two weeks between treatments is usually necessary for the body to adapt to one set of changes before the next changes are offered. Physicians are often accustomed to referring to physical therapy or to massage, where more frequent visits may be beneficial. Please ask the referring physician to either leave the duration and spacing of treatments up to me, or to specify something like: "Eight treatments within a 90 day period". 5. Some Physician's use referral forms for massage or physical therapy, these are different from regular prescription forms. Some insurance companies reject these referral forms and insist the referral be rewritten on a prescription form. Check with your insurer first to see what they will accept.
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