Since 1991, NLC has and will continue to

provide a safe and sanitary environment

for our patients and staff.

~Sharon M. Vogel, Founder
 

HSA/FSA Cards are Accepted for lymph drainage medical massage. 

You can use your HSA/FSA card at NLC as NLC National Lymphatic Centers, Inc. is categorized MCC-8099 to Medical Services and Health Practitioners. Each credit card processor and insurance provider has their own particular regulations and restrictions.

1. First, a question, does your Insurance accept massage therapy as a covered treatment? Call and ask them! Call your insurance company and ask if your policy covers massage therapy. In some situations, an insurance policy won’t cover massages, even if you get a prescription from a doctor. The weight of the insurance company outweighs the Doctor. Do step one before anything else so you do not waste your time and money.

2. Second, visit your doctor,for a script, a prescription for massage.

Visit a PCP Primary Care Physician or Surgeon, Oncologist, Oral Surgeon or Dentist and get a prescription for massage.
Explain your specific symptoms of stress, swelling, pain.
Stress-related symptoms, circulation issues caused by diabetes or hypertension, carpal tunnel, plantar fasciitis, sciatica, arthritis, tinnitus, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression and chronic back pain are all great examples that could qualify you for massage therapy.
Bring the following Case Studies of people who have alleviated similar symptoms through Licensed Massage Therapy LMT, Certified Lymphedema Therapists CLT and Myofascial Release Therapy MFR. 

Have the doctor’s nurse fax the script to NLC at 888-302-1911.

3. What should the prescription say
Once you and your doctor have discussed it, you’ll need them to write a prescription for a massage 97124. In your insurance’s eyes, this prescription acts as proof that you actually need an HSA or FSA massage.
Your prescription must include the following:
          -Medical condition or injury, Frequency of visit, Duration of visit.

          -Example: 

           Lymphedema 189.0, 70 min sessions twice a week for four weeks.

4. Use Your FSA or HSA for Massage
Once you have your prescription, now book with any massage therapy provider at

Https://www.Lymphatics.net or call to schedule at 630-828-6582.

A prescription is not needed to have a massage, but if you want HSA to cover it, then it is recommended.

 

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SANITATION AT NLC

We Care about you, our patients, workers, local community and global community and we want your mind to be at rest.  As an allied health, secondary medical facility, know that we are already adhering to sanitation and especially now to the updated CDC and FSMTB Guidelines for practice with Covid-19 Considerations.

LEARN GUIDELINES HERE: fsmtb.org 2025.12.21

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ACCORDING TO THE CDC AND FSMTB,

1. In short, proper sanitation is NLC's duty.

Of course, as normal, before all this happened, we still provide gloves, masks, hand sanitizers, sanitary laundry situation, sanitary linens, regularly wiped down surfaces with EPA disinfectant, fans for fresh air, regularly mopped floors between patients, the therapists wear street shoes to the clinic and change once inside, band hair, use hand sanitizer if they by accidently touch bangs or face, we keep capacity to a minimum with few or none in the waiting area, uncluttered reception area, no-touch trash cans area still available, 

 

We have added: 

• Wonderful warm steaming hand towels for the front reception area cleanse hands, followed by a  hand sanitizer.
• Disposable socks for your cleanliness and comfort
• Shiatsu foot massager & Vibration foot massager to ease stress
• Wonderful soaps in the bathroom to pamper you
• Tissues everywhere you look so no surfaces are touched
• HEPA filter for fresh air
• UVA UVB STERILIZERS in the treatment room for sanitizing items between patients but also provided for you as a courtesy during your treatment so you can pop in your keys, phone, wallet, watch, jewelry, or the mask/gloves that you wore as you arrived.
• N95 Masks for therapists
• Signs from the CDC to remind sanitation procedures and Checklists for confirmation 

2. In short, THE PATIENT's DUTY

• Be happy.      (ok, I added that one.)
• Please band hair before arriving.       (I added that one too)
• If you have a sore throat, runny nose then please be wearing a face mask as you arrive and do not touch it.  If you do touch it, then please use a tissue. or hand sanitizer every single time.  The CDC suggests face masks worn from time of entry to time of exit. 
• Keep your hands clean by using tissues for every door knob, or knuckles for light switch or any thing that you touch.  Our pens are sterilized and clipboards sanitized between patients, so these are safe.
• Please wash hands immediately upon entering. 
• Any contact with anyone with fever or flu like symptoms or if your temperature 100.3 F or higher  then we we will send you home to rest it out and get well.

We care about you and show it through our actions:  sanitation.

 

 

Best of Health,

~ Sharon

 

Sharon M Vogel

Clinic Director and Founder

National Lymphatic Centers, Inc.

 

FSMTB UPDATE January 1, 2021

Thank you for your trust, we've got this!