The American Medical Association and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had backed maggot therapy. This means patient receiving Maggot Therapy, or Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT) can now be reimbursed for it. It is certainly said that Insurance companies may soon think to cover Maggot Therapy under their health insurance scheme.
What is Maggot?
Maggot is a larva of the insect like blowfly and housefly that are usually discovered in decaying organic matter. Humans are not immune to the feeding habits of maggots and can also contract myiasis.
What is Maggot Therapy?
Maggot Therapy is also known as MDT (Maggot Debridement Therapy), larva therapy, larval therapy, or larvae therapy. This therapy is usually used for wound treatment. The live or disinfected maggots (fly larvae) are raised in non-healing skin or wounds of a human being for the function of selectively cleaning out only the necrotic tissue within a wound, disinfection, and promotion of wound healing.
The wound treatment is listed under “Debridement” category for coding purposes.
I think this is great news for patient suffering from non-healing skin disease or from any kind of wound infection. If the insurance companies start covering Maggot Therapy, the patient receiving this therapy might be eligible to make a claim to insurance companies.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456224,00.html
