<s docid="FR940104-2-00039" num="17"> The Medicare law does not, however, provide an all-inclusive list of specific items, services, treatments, procedures, or technologies covered by Medicare.</s>

<s docid="FR940104-2-00039" num="18"> Thus, except for the examples of DME in section 1861(n) of the Act, some of the medical and other health services listed in section 1861(s) of the Act, and exclusions from coverage listed in section 1862(a) of the Act, the statute does not specify medical devices, surgical procedures, or diagnostic and therapeutic services that should be covered or excluded from coverage.</s>

<s docid="FT922-461" num="36"> Some 60 per cent of clients come through referrals from GPs and consultants; a similar proportion use private health insurance schemes to pay for acupuncture and physiotherapy.</s>

<s docid="FT932-9008" num="8"> Clinicare claims the top-of-the-range Carte Blanche breaks new ground in the range of treatment covered.</s>

<s docid="FT932-9008" num="9"> As well as hospital care, it pays for prescriptions and GP fees as well as dentists' and opticians' charges.</s>

<s docid="FT932-9008" num="10"> Alternative medicine is also available.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="23"> Basic principles of public health care The basic principles for public health care are: --1) adherence to human and citizen rights in the field of health care and provision of State guarantees related to these rights; --2) priority of preventive measures in the field of health care; --3) availability of sociomedical care; --4) social protection of citizens in the event of illness; --5) responsibility of State executive and administrative agencies, enterprises, institutions and organizations, regardless of nature of ownership, and officials for ensuring the rights of citizens in the field of health care.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="65"> The State health care system also includes medical-preventive [therapeutic and preventive care] institutions, research institutions, educational institutions, pharmaceutical enterprises and organizations, pharmacies, preventive sanitary institutions, institutions of forensic medical expertise, services of material and technical support, enterprises that manufacture medical agents and equipment, and other enterprises, institutions and organizations, which are State property or subordinated to administrative agencies of the State health care system.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="368"> Use of folk medicine methods is permitted in medical-preventive institutions in the State or municipal health care system by decision of administrators of said institutions, in accordance with Article 43 of these Fundamentals.</s>

<s docid="LA040590-0119" num="79"> While the cost of treatment, including room and board, is about $560 a day, an administrator said, most of the charges are covered by insurance.</s>

<s docid="LA091789-0225" num="66"> Most companies offer dental coverage as well as standard medical, and a few also offer coverage of prescription drugs, vision, hearing, psychiatric and preventive care, and alternative treatments such as acupuncture.</s>

<s docid="LA101389-0153" num="10"> Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona were mandated by the state to allow chiropractic care for state-mandated insurance programs several years ago.</s>

<s docid="LA101389-0153" num="12"> Because of this evidence, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona have arbitrarily limited chiropractic care in their medical programs because of the fear of runaway costs.</s>

