Playing the Game: Accepting Insurance as an Acupuncturist

Accepting and billing insurance can be like a game. This course explains the playing field and rules of this game. We will discuss what an acupuncturist needs to do before seeing insurance patients, during the patient visit, and after the patient leaves. In other words, it will examine all the stages, equipment, and, most importantly, systems necessary to successfully accept insurance and increase income, all while minimizing the risks. This is a must take course for anyone who wants to promote our medicine to more patients while increasing revenues.

This course is based on the book Playing the Game, A Step-by-step Approach to Accepting Insurance as an Acupuncturist by Dr. Greg Sperber (the course teacher) and Tiffany Andersen-Hefner. It includes many necessary forms for accepting insurance and creating time saving and effective systems.

This course is also part of an ongoing series of classes in our Mastering Business for Acupuncturists series which looks at business, practice, and marketing with an emphasis on helping acupuncturists become as successful as possible. When one of is more successful, we are all more successful and our profession benefits…

This course will be presented as a live webinar on Sunday, February 1 and September 6, 2026 from 2 to 4pm pst/pdt.

Hosted By

The course will be hosted on Net of Knowledge. You will be given access to the event on Net of Knowledge before the start date. Once your event access has been added you will receive an email letting you know. When you register here, we will pass on your name, email address and country to Net of Knowledge in order to register you for the event.

Course Goals

A participant in this course will be able to:

1. Understand the basics of insurance billing
2. Create a system of accepting insurance for their practice
3. Determine possible pitfalls of accepting insurance and minimize them

This is California Acupuncture Board (CAB) Category 2 live education course. For NCCAOM, this course is a Coursework in Professional Enhancement (CW-PE) PDA. This course is pending approval by the California Acupuncture Board and NCCAOM for 2 hours of continuing education and PDAs. For further information, please contact Integrative Medicine Council, CAB CEU Provider #1349, NCCAOM PDA Provider #166669, at DrGreg@integrativemedicinecouncil.org or (619) 881-0029.

Refund Policy: A refund request can be made up to seven days before the scheduled webinar and a full refund will be offered. Within a week of the seminar, cancellations will refund half the cost of the webinar.

Picture Attribution

Prepared for Dr. Greg Sperber by Blue Poppy Enterprises