never, ever work for any patient who might be self-employed, middle class, working class, retired on a fixed income, trying to put their kids through college, a student, a stay-at-home parent, heading a single-parent household, uninsured, underinsured, or unemployed. That’s an awful lot of people.
Acupuncture is very gentle medicine, with maximum benefit often seen from multiple treatments. At The Turning Point, we want you to come as often and for as long as needed. And in cases where you might not need multiple treatments, like a common cold, acupuncture shouldn't cost an arm and a leg. Acupuncture is one of the oldest and most widely practiced medical procedures in the world, and it is gentle, safe, and effective for a wide range of conditions. Acupuncture can play an integral role in creating sustainable, community based medicine if it is not placed out of reach of the people who might use it the most.
“People who have a lot of money and no time we call ‘rich.’ People who have time but no money we call ‘poor.’ Yet the most precious gifts – love, friendship, time with loved ones – grow only in the sweet soil of ‘unproductive’ time.”
The kind of insurance which pays for any form of alternative medicine is more and more confined to upper middle class patients who could pay for treatments out of pocket anyway. Even basic medical insurance that does not cover any form of alternative treatment has become a type of luxury increasingly inaccessible to both working class and many middle class patients as well. Adopting the American acupuncture model, with its dependence on high fees, dangerously limits the potential recipients of acupuncture and virtually ensures that it will remain nothing more than “an upper middle class curiosity”. (Scott, John. 2006. "What Are We Doing Anyway? Stasis or Progress?" Acupuncture Today. Volume 7; Issue 7.) The existing American economic structures of acupuncture would
The Turning Point strives to make acupuncture
affordable and accessible to as many people as possible.
Acupuncture is offered on a suggested sliding scale
ranging from $15 to $35 per treatment.
The cost of multiple treatments within the same week can be reduced.
We want the sliding scale to work for you,
so that you can receive acupuncture regularly enough
for it to make a significant difference in your life.
Is acupuncture tax deductible? Yes! So keep track of your treatments. The cost of acupuncture and prescribed herbal medicine are deductible as a medical expense. Receipts are available. Receipts can also be submitted for health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Let us know how frequently you would like a receipt: at every visit, quarterly, or just at the end of the year.
The Turning Point accepts cash, check, and credit card. Credit card payments can be used on either a one-time only basis or for recurring payments with all future visits. Ask for details.
