There is a still a year to go before insurance Exchanges are implemented under the Affordable Care Act. However, the deadline for States to define the essential benefits to be covered is approaching on December 26. Of keen interest to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) disciplines, are whether the services provided by these licensed health professionals will be considered part of essential benefits and therefore subject to mandatory inclusion by health plans that wish to participate in the Exchanges.

Bastyr alumni Patricia Herman, ND PhD, and iconic CAM researcher David Eisenberg, MD recently published a systematic review of CAM cost-effectiveness studies.  Over 114 full economic evaluation studies were included.

Many people have recognized that illness, injury and physical pain are stress-related, but few know how to rapidly alter the stress component so that it changes the body. By the combined use of interpersonal neurobiology and the precise use of the patient's visual ecology, emotional distress can be changed in seconds.

When: 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Where: Bastyr University Auditorium

Les Berenson, MD, a board-certified physician in internal medicine, a leader in preventive and wellness medicine, and co-chair of GMO Free-Washington, will lead a discussion on the health risks of genetically modified foods and organisms during this event sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Leadership.