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If I go to the spa, are the massage treatments done by Registered Massage Therapists?

 

I ask because my work health care plan covers up to a certain amount each year for massages and I would submit the claim if I go.

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My insurance list all the local businesses that are covered by their policy on their website, cruise lines weren't included.

 

You might have a hard time arguing your massage on your cruise vacation was a genuine medical benefit 😀

 

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If I go to the spa, are the massage treatments done by Registered Massage Therapists?

 

 

 

I ask because my work health care plan covers up to a certain amount each year for massages and I would submit the claim if I go.

 

 

Nice try.

 

 

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It they are registered, it will generally not be in the USA. They all work for a third party company (such as Steiner) which hire nearly all Europeans. At least one luxury line uses a third party company based in the USA (I think its Canyon Ranch)...but this is not the norm.

 

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It they are registered, it will generally not be in the USA. They all work for a third party company (such as Steiner) which hire nearly all Europeans. At least one luxury line uses a third party company based in the USA (I think its Canyon Ranch)...but this is not the norm.

 

 

 

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Oceania uses Canyon Ranch.

 

 

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My plan is pretty good. Doesn't matter where in the world it takes place. I got reimbursed for a massage at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland and the InterContinental Resort in Tahiti, among others. I only have to prove it was done by a Registered Massage Therapist.

 

I guess I will try to find out what company NCL and Princess use.

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Are you certain the requirement isn't that the "treatment" be provided by a Licensed Massage Therapist rather than a Registered Massage Therapist? Of course neither term is subject to standard definition - even in the U S, so it sounds like an extraordinarily generous health insurance plan.

 

And neither term is likely to be applicable in the case of cruise ship practitioners - who are very rarely U S nationality or residence.

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Are you certain the requirement isn't that the "treatment" be provided by a Licensed Massage Therapist rather than a Registered Massage Therapist? Of course neither term is subject to standard definition - even in the U S, so it sounds like an extraordinarily generous health insurance plan.

 

 

 

And neither term is likely to be applicable in the case of cruise ship practitioners - who are very rarely U S nationality or residence.

 

 

Yeah- almost too good to be true.

 

 

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