We know that patients, who go through Lamaze training for instance, can also use music therapy to help them relax and to have pain relief in terms of labor pains. Music therapy is quantifiable and qualitative. Music therapists complete assessments for each patient and collect extensive data in order to write a complex patient history and develop a client-centered treatment plan. The music therapist is then able to evaluate the patient during the course of treatment. All of this contributes to the quantifiability of music therapy treatment.
Music therapy is reimbursable.
The government has recognized music therapy as a reimbursable service. Similarly, insurance companies are recognizing the advantages of covering music therapy as a benefit as they respond to increasing market demand for greater patient choice of health care services. Music therapy interventions are favored for the ability to meet quality of life needs. As quality of life issues and patient choice are pushed to the forefront of the national healthcare agenda, music therapy is being increasingly recognized for its unique contribution to patient quality of life. We believe that patients who are under less stress, who are in a brighter mood, appear to do better in terms of their anti-cancer therapy.