Many traditional Native American healing practices have proven health benefits. Sweat lodges, for example, have been documented as being helpful in ridding infections from the body, helping with ...

PHOENIX — Native Americans in New Mexico, Arizona and two other states could now see government health coverage for some traditional healing practices. On Oct. 16, the Biden administration ...

[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly says that Arizona was among the states in which Medicaid would soon cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans. For the change to ...

Advocates say there’s more work to be done in incorporating traditional Native American healing practices into Western medicine, which has potential. But stigma and views of this approach being ...

but traditional healing methods were often excluded from coverage, leaving many Native American patients without access to treatments that aligned with their cultural values. “What California is ...

Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents, reimburses for medical prescriptions or talk therapy, but traditional healing methods were often excluded from coverage, leaving many ...

The new coverage includes practices such as music therapy, sweat lodges, and drumming, which are integral to Native healing traditions and ... experience as a Native American.