Medical Necessity

Medical Necessity requires that if you are being seen by another medical or health care provider that you have them sign this agreement: HERE

Definition of Medical Necessity for Physicians

“Medically Necessary” or “Medical Necessity” means health care services that a physician, exercising prudent clinical judgment, would provide to a patient. The service must be:

  1. For the purpose of evaluating, diagnosing, or treating an illness, injury, disease, or its symptoms
  2. In accordance with the generally accepted standards of medical practice
  3. Clinically appropriate, in terms of type, frequency, extent, site, and duration, and considered effective for the patient’s illness, injury, or disease
  4. Not primarily for the convenience of the patient, health care provider, or other physicians or health care providers
  5. Not more costly than an alternative service or sequence of services at least as likely to produce equivalent therapeutic or diagnostic results as to the diagnosis or treatment of that patient’s illness, injury, or disease

For these purposes, “generally accepted standards of medical practice” means:

  1. Standards that are based on credible scientific evidence published in peer-reviewed, medical literature generally recognized by the relevant medical community
  2. Physician Specialty Society recommendations
  3. The views of physicians practicing in the relevant clinical area
  4. Any other relevant factors

Preventive care may be Medically Necessary, but coverage for Medically Necessary preventive care is governed by terms of the applicable Plan Documents.

Resource: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/medically-necessary/

* Please be aware that New York State Law (Educational Law and Regents Rules) requires that you have a medical evaluation (yearly physical) as a part of your care, particularly if you are have been medically diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, bi-polar, major depression disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or autism.

Our services are available to anyone with any diagnosis but you will have to be engaged in services with another provider. We are earnest about our understanding on what is developmental trauma, normative dissociation, and universal addictions. These are not diagnoses available in the current DSM. We are supporting stress reduction, posttraumatic growth, recovery, resiliency, and performance enhancement.

Disclaimer

The Wounded Healers Institute fully complies with all local and New York State cannabis laws, and all federal regulations. We are a risk reduction, mindfulness service and an education company. We do not promote illegal activities or provide resources for obtaining illegal substances or illegal psychedelic psychotherapy services.
The Wounded Healers Institute does not provide or sell cannabis for any aspect of our program, training or events, and it is not a retailer, supplier, manufacturer, reseller, distributor, agent, representative or subcontractor of any cannabis supplier or retailer. Our services do not constitute therapy and we do not diagnose or treat mental health. What we do do is provide access to wellness, posttraumatic growth, and resiliency models to employ the spiritual and developmental model of Addiction as Dissociation and use The Path of the Wounded Healer as our guide.


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