Alternative Therapy Providers
Phoenix Health Fund will pay natural therapy benefits for services provided by practitioners included in the ARHG Alternative Therapists Registration Database. The ARHG:
- approves the Therapy,
- accredits the Association,
- allows individual Practitioner registration, and
- maintains the list of provider details.
The Therapies currently approved are:
- Acupuncture
- Aromatherapy
- Homeopathy
- Myotherapy
- Naturopathy
- Remedial Massage Therapy
- Remedial Therapy
- Chinese Herbal Medicine
- Western Herbal Medicine
The Associations currently accredited are:
- Acupuncture Association of Australia, New Zealand & Asia
- Acupuncture Association of Victoria
- Alumni Assoc Natural Medicine Practitioners
- Association of Massage Therapists Ltd
- Association of Remedial Masseurs
- Australian Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Association Ltd
- Australian Association of Ayurveda Inc
- Australian Association of Massage Therapists
- Australian College of Acupuncturists Ltd
- Australian Natural Therapists Association
- Australian Naturopathic Practitioners Association
- Australian Register of Homeopaths
- Australian Traditional Chinese Medicine Association Inc
- Australian Traditional Medicine Society
- Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Society of Australia Ltd
- Complementary Medicine Association
- Federation of Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture
- Institute of Registered Myotherapists of Australia
- International Aromatherapy & Aromatic Medicine Association Inc
- Massage Association of Australia
- Massage Australia
- National Herbalists Association of Australia
- Naturopathic Practitioners Association Incorporated
- Professional Myotherapists of Australia
- Queensland Swedish Massage Institute
- Society of Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture of W.A.
- Society of Natural Therapists and Researchers Inc
A number of points to bear in mind:
- Phoenix pays benefits for consultations only, not for supply of natural remedies, for example.
- Practitioner associations, or individual practitioners, should contact the ARHG on (03) 9836 1232 to apply for registration.
