A growing collaboration between the National Certification Board for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine and the American Society of Acupuncturists is helping ensure NCBAHM nationally board-certified ...

You must bill the higher rate to receive the increased payment. Failing to update your fee schedule effectively leaves revenue on the table. For 2026, relative value units (RVUs) for acupuncture ...

Anxiety is a self-contained story with a pattern of somatic repercussions based on beliefs and coping strategies from life experiences that often start in childhood. Since anxiety presents with a ...

The shared language of titles, training standards and ICD-11 dual coding will allow traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to show up clearly inside modern health systems. This modernization will be ...

Shifting the paradigm of private practice, new models of practice and service delivery are continually being developed and evaluated by the acupuncture community. In this month's column, we interview ...

As our dynamic profession continues to evolve in the U.S., unique models and approaches to treatment develop. Their hardiness, effectiveness and resilience are being tested in a variety of settings, ...

Dr. Dustin Dillberg, DACM, LAc., is a practitioner, writer, and educator specializing in sports medicine, posture, movement patterns, lymphatics, pain management, and functional medicine. He is a ...

Each year, ICD-10-CM is updated on Oct. 1. For 2026, there are 74,179 total codes, 487 additions, 28 deletions, and 38 revisions. Key rule: Code changes are based on date of service, not the claim ...

Help the 89% of people in your practice with cartilage degeneration. Join Tom Bayne, DC, to hear about an evidence-based joint support alternative to glucosamine. Glucosamine may be one of the ...

Among the more unconventional options for treating long COVID, nicotine – delivered via low-dose transdermal patches – has surfaced as a potential integrative tool. It appears that nicotine competes ...

In medicine, the study of etiology refers to the study of the origins of disease. The study of pathogenesis is the study of the actual processes within the body whereby disease occurs, develops and ...

Most Americans have some back discomfort in their lifetime. Back pain is most often caused by a muscle or ligament strain or spasm; a disk problem; spondylosis; or stenosis. Stress can also be a ...