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🏛️ Federal Medicare Guidelines for Chiropractic Services
🏛️ Federal Medicare Guidelines for Chiropractic Services
🏛️ Federal Medicare Guidelines for Chiropractic Services
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
- Medicare Part B covers only manual manipulation of the spine by a chiropractor to correct a vertebral subluxation.
- Other services—such as X-rays, massage therapy, acupuncture, and maintenance therapy—are not covered.
- Chiropractors must be enrolled in Medicare to bill for covered services.
Texas State Regulations for Chiropractic Services
🏛️ Federal Medicare Guidelines for Chiropractic Services
🏛️ Federal Medicare Guidelines for Chiropractic Services
Under Texas law, chiropractic services are defined and regulated as follows:
- Chiropractic services include necessary treatment or correction by means of manual manipulation of the spine, using hands only, to correct a subluxation.
- Benefits are limited to services provided during the first 12 visits to any one eligible recipient by a doctor of chiropractic during any one benefit period.
- Coverage does not extend to diagnostic or therapeutic services, or adjunctive therapies furnished by a chiropractor or by others under their direction.
