ACC Acupuncture for Pain & Injury Treatment

• You need an accepted claim for the injury your wanting to receive treatment for.  To get this a GP or Physio-therapist will have lodged a claim with ACC, of which ACC assess and accepts, and then has sent a letter to you to confirm the claim is accepted and that they will support treatment costs.

• You need either your ‘ACC 45 number’ or your ‘claim number’. These numbers are allocated to identify you and your injury and will be sent to you in the letter from ACC confirming the claim is accepted. We need one of these numbers provided to us before the treatment date. If you are unsure, it is easy to get either of these numbers by calling ACC on 0800 101 996.

•  The date of injury needs to have occurred within the past 12 months to access an appointment for acupuncture. After this time ACC does not cover the injury treatment cost for acupuncture unless it is of a very serous nature (e.g. amputated limb/life long disability etc). This means regardless of if the claim is still active, if it occurred more than 12 months prior it is not automatically subsidised by ACC and generally we cannot give treatment at the ACC treatment rate.

• After booking with us we will e-mail you a short form to fill in regarding your injury. We will need you to complete this form and have it sent back prior to you receiving treatment on your booking date.

Please Note: ACC automatically funds an entitlement of 12 treatments of acupuncture and can only be received within the 12 months after the claim has been accepted. They can also only be received within the 3 months after the first acupuncture treatment has been taken (regardless of who the acupuncture provider was). 3 months after the first treatment has been taken ACC will no longer fund any unused  treatments of the 12 available. Please call us if you have any questions.