HEALTH FUND NEWS BOOK REVIEW
Doctors Health Fund
Names and details of eligible ATMS members will be sent to Doctors Health Fund each month . Please note that Doctors Health Fund only covers Remedial Massage . The provider eligibility requirements for Doctors Health Fund are located on the ATMS website www . atms . com . au . Your ATMS number will be your Provider Number .
HCF
Names and details of eligible ATMS members will be sent to HCF on a fortnightly basis . The provider eligibility requirements for HCF are located on the ATMS website www . atms . com . au . HCF do not issue provider numbers nor use your ATMS number as your provider number . They do however require your ATMS membership details , including your ATMS number , to be clearly indicated on all invoices and receipts issued .
Please note : HCF requires all providers to have a minimum of $ 2 million Professional Indemnity Insurance . They no longer accredit Nutrition ( as of 1 April 2019 ).
Medibank Private
Names and details of eligible ATMS members will be sent to Medibank Private on a fortnightly basis . The provider eligibility requirements for Medibank Private are located on the ATMS website www . atms . com . au . Medibank Private requires Clinical Records to be taken in English . Medibank Private generates Provider Numbers after receiving the list of eligible practitioners from ATMS . Medibank Private sends these provider numbers directly to ATMS . ATMS will then forward this information to the provider . Please note that Medibank has placed a restriction of up to a maximum 3 clinic addresses that will be recognised for Remedial Massage . There are no restrictions on the number of recognised clinics for other modalities . Please refer to our website for updated recognition criteria and standards for Medibank .
NIB including APIA , AAMI Health Insurance , Qantas Health Insurance & GU Health
Names and details of eligible ATMS members will be sent to NIB on a weekly basis . The provider eligibility requirements for NIB are located on the ATMS website www . atms . com . au . NIB does accept overseas Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine qualifications which have been assessed as equivalent to the required Australian qualification by Vetassess . Your ATMS Membership Number will be your provider number .
HICAPS
ATMS members who wish to activate these facilities need to register directly with HICAPS . HICAPS do not cover all health funds and modalities . Please go to www . hicaps . com . au or call 1800 805 780 for further information .
Mastering Chronic Disease : Toxicity , Deficiency and Infection
Jon Gamble . Karuna Publishing . Yerrinbool 2002 . ISBN 13 978-0-6484144-5-2 Available at : https :// shop . karunahealthcare . com . au / products / mastering-chronic-disease
Reviewed by Stephen Clarke .
The purpose of this book is to share the author ’ s methodology of assessment , diagnosis and case management of chronic disease . He addresses a rapidly growing health phenomenon of our time : the often seemingly intractable rate of complex chronic illness .
The book begins with a chapter on the problematic nature of chronic illness , and Gamble is quick to identify a major stumbling-block to resolving – even correctly identifying – it : the trap of the “ disease name box ”. According to Gamble , many practitioners fail to recognise that unwellness can ’ t be confined within isolated diagnostic compartments . Dysfunction in one body system can both be triggered by dysfunction in another , and flow into another . Its roots can also reach much further back into a patient ’ s history than mainstream medicine acknowledges . Chronic illness is too complex to be addressed by prescriptions that simply suppress symptoms . For example , the many groups of organisms that cause infection may not all be discovered through routine pathology tests ; many call for specialised functional pathology , and exhaustive history-taking that may often need to stretch far into a patient ’ s past , and even traverse previous generations , in the search for causes .
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