Show Search Search Query. Give Now. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. Full Schedule. All Streams. Twitter Email. A City Heights resident turns to alternative medicine after losing her health insurance. Can she keep it up with an Obamacare plan? Second Opinion. Speak City Heights. Read more. Will the insurances start covering some of the alternative methods of medical care. If you have a question about the Affordable Care Act, ask it at kpbs. Tags Health City Heights.
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All ACA-compliant individual and small group plans include coverage for physical therapy. Some individual market plans, sold via the health insurance marketplaces and off-exchange , include coverage for chiropractic services — but many do not.
It depends in large part on where you live, as different states have different rules. The ACA establishes a set of essential health benefits EHBs that defines the benefits required to be offered to consumers in broad categories but do not specify specific services to be included in many cases. Chiropractic care is not spelled out specifically in the EHB, but the ACA granted states a significant degree of flexibility to further define specific services to be included in the set of EHBs to be offered in each state.
NEW: How to choose the best health insurance for your needs. For physical therapy-related services, inclusion in the essential health benefits is a bit more direct as both rehabilitation and habilitation services are specifically listed in the essential health benefits. However, the benchmark plan still plays an important role in terms of how physical therapy is covered from one state to another. Rehabilitative health care services are designed to help a person regain or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or impaired because a person was sick, hurt, or disabled.
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