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Traditional and complementary medicine, including acupuncture and naturopathic medicine, has a mixed picture of regulation and eligibility for reimbursement across the US

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Traditional and complementary medicine, including acupuncture and naturopathic medicine, has a mixed picture of regulation and eligibility for reimbursement across the US

image: Statutory regulation of traditional and complementary medicine practitioners in the United States. view more 

Credit: Ijaz et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Traditional and complementary medicine, including acupuncture and naturopathic medicine, has a mixed picture of regulation and eligibility for reimbursement across the US.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001996

Article Title: Governing therapeutic pluralism: An environmental scan of the statutory regulation and government reimbursement of traditional and complementary medicine practitioners in the United States

Author Countries: Canada, US

Funding: This study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (NI). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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