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Greenlake Acupuncture will check with your insurance to see if coverage is provided and help you understand the benefits specific to their health plan. Please call (206) 525-5825.

Working on Insurance Plans to be covered (Deductibles-see “Payments”)

  • Premera (In-network)
  • Regence (In-network)
  • Tivity Health network (In-network): Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of WA, Group Health Cooperative (GHC) HMO benefit plan
  • United Healthcare (In-network)
  • WHN Affiliated Networks (In-network):
    Aetna WA CAM
    Coordinated Care Cascade Care Select
    Coordinated Care WA
    Group Health Cooperative-Alternative West
    TriWent Healthcare Alliance-Patient-Centered Com 

Out of Network Coverage (works=√); (Maybe=~)

  • Group Health(~)
  • Anthem (√)
  • Aetna (√)
  • Cigna (√)
  • First Choice (~)
  • Lifewise (√)
  • Medicare (~)(needs supplemental insurance)
  • Personal Injury and Motor Vehicle
  • Progressive (√)
  • Uniform Medical Plan
  • all others (~)

Your Patient Intake Form

No need to print; our office has colorful copies available. 

Arbitration Agreement 1

Arbitration Agreement 2

Cancellation Policy

Thank you for understanding that we will charge the full price of an individual visit for missed appointments or for rescheduled or canceled appointments without 24-hour notice. You can call and leave a message at any time, including weekends and holidays.

Call 24 hr. in advance to 206.525.5825.

Payments:

Please send us photos of the front and back of your insurance cards as soon as possible, and we’ll check for you. Make sure your deductibles are fully met. The sooner you send your insurance information, the easier it will be for us to determine your payment amount. In most cases, we also require a deposit until insurance payments are received. We charge a cash rate upfront until your deductible is met. We accept credit and debit cards.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Chinese Medicine?
Traditional Chinese Oriental Medicine is a comprehensive system of health care with a continuous clinical tradition of over 3,000 years. It includes acupuncture and herbal treatment as well as massage, dietary therapy, meditation and exercise. These therapies work with all living things to promote the body’s ability to heal itself. Non-needle treatment is possible.

2. How does it work?
Oriental medicine is based on an energetic model rather than the biochemical model of Western medicine. The ancient Chinese recognized the vital energy behind all life forms and life processes. They called this energy Qi (pronounced “chee”) In developing an understanding of the prevention and cure of disease, the ancient physicians discovered a system of cyclic energy flowing in the human body along specific pathways, each relating to an organ system.

Disease is considered to arise due to a deficiency or imbalance of vital energy in the energetic pathways and their associate organ systems. The pathways or meridians of energy communicate to the surface of the body at specific locations called acupuncture points. Each point will have different effects upon the vital energy passing through it.
Traditional Oriental Medicine has also developed methods of diagnosis by examination of the tongue and pulse. Findings from these modalities are combined with other signs and symptoms to create a whole picture. From this a treatment plan can be formulated to induce the body to a balanced state of health.

3. What can I expect if treated?
Many conditions may be alleviated very rapidly by acupuncture and herbs; however, some conditions which have arisen over a couple of years will only be relieved with steady progress. As in any form of healing, the patient’s attitude, diet, determination and lifestyle will affect the outcome of a course of treatment.

4. Is Acupuncture Safe?

Acupuncture is safe, effective and has virtually no side effects. It uses the body’s own natural healing processes to effect relief. It works on many health problems for which Western medicine is less effective. It puts people back in control of their own bodies and health care. It treats the whole person, not just the disease.

In the hands of a licensed accupuncturist, your safety is assured. The needles are available in pre-sterilzed, disposable form so that the risk of transmittable diseases is elimated.

5. Is Acupuncture Painful?
Acupuncture bears no resemblance to the feeling of getting an injection since the main source of pain from injections is the larger diameter, hollow needle and the medication being forced into the tissue by pressure. Acupuncture needles by contrast are very fine and flexible, about the diameter of a thick hair. In most cases insertion by a skilled practitioner is performed with a minimum of discomfort. Most patients find the treatments very relaxing and many fall asleep during the treatments. In some cases it is not necessary to use needles at all.

What our patients are saying:

I recently treated a woman in her early fifties who has had a hip problem since 2011, after falling from a chair during a spider jump. She received treatment once before 2014, but then continued with her life for almost six years, trying to ignore mild limping in her right leg. She was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) by her Western doctor after being sent to the ER multiple times. They initially thought she was having heart attacks, but she didn’t realize it at the time. It wasn’t until a car accident in April 2020 that she decided to return to our clinic for new treatment sessions. She reached out to me about a month ago because her leg looked as if she was dragging something that didn’t belong to her body. After a few treatments, she is now not only able to walk but also do small running and bend her knees to chest level—something she hadn’t been able to do for a long time. She is very happy now! – jz

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