This is the home page for the Maryland Acupuncture Society, Inc (MAS) web site. We are a professional society of licensed acupuncturists representing over one third* of all licensed acupuncturists in Maryland. Our site has information forprofessional acupuncturistsas well as for thegeneral publicwho are interested in acupuncture and Asian medicine.

The new 2009 version of the Acucode Book is now available to MAS members only for $40. The new version has more codes, sample letters to insurance companies who are delaying or rejecting claims, a sample HCFA form, and a personal injury claim section. Order your copy today!

The Jeffrey Yuen Seminar on Addictions: Treating the Spiritual, Emotional and Physical Roots was held at the Sheraton Columbia April 4-5, 2009. The brochure may be downloaded by clicking here. Or the information in the brochure may be viewed on our website page. To hear the first 45 minutes of the seminar from Sunday, click here to download an mp3 (podcast) file. This is a large file, 16 megabytes, and may take a long time to download if you have a slow internet connection.

This entire seminar was recorded and a recording can be pre-ordered in the MAS internet store. The Addiction CDs have now arrived at the MAS office and the orders are being processed now. Please be patient as there are many orders to send out...

The Jeffrey Yuen Addictions seminar CD contains some very handy features. 1. Each track has a distinctive title that shows up on your CD player. Even the questions are labeled. We are trying to get the titles in the main iTunes data base as well, so they will show up on your iPod. If someone knows how to do that, we would welcome your help! All track titles are also offered in an Excel file on-line. There are 13-23 tracks on each of the 10 CDs , logically divided according to the lecture. 2. Within the handout, the tracks are collated. While you are listening to the CD, you always know exactly where you are within the outline and can easily find your way back there. 3. We have also included a PDF of all of the drawings that accompanied the lecture, 32 altogether. They are also identified within the notes so as you are listening to the lecture, you can tell where he is in the handout but also what he is drawing on the overhead. We appreciate your patience and hope you agree that all of this been worth the extra wait. We want to thank Francesca Paik for letting her Metal nature shine through in this artful and laborously created product. And of course, thank you so much for for your continued support.

The MAS Annual Membership Meeting was held Sunday, April 5 during the Jeffrey Yuen Seminar lunch break. Tricia Kramer was re-elected as treasurer, Kathy Crosland was re-elected as member at large/membership chair, and Ta-Ya Lee was re-elected for a third term as vice president of external affairs. Board members gave reports, and Ta-Ya Lee gave a report on a recent study she made on insurance reimbursement.

MAS has started a group on the Facebook Website. All MAS members are invited to join. The group will allow group discussions, and questions to be asked of MAS board members and other members, and photographs or other information to be left on the group.

Click to go to the group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=131147570105

A short seminar on Chinese Patent Herbs, presented by MAS and Steven Kaufman was held on February 28-March 1, 2009, at the Sheraton in Columbia, Maryland. The seminar was restricted to 30 attendees and was full.

A CD recording of the recent Angela and John Hicks seminar is now in stock in the MAS internet store.

The MAS membership renewal campaign is finished. Members who had not renewed their memberships by January 31 were dropped from active membership. The table below shows the number of members whose memberships expired at the end of October, 2008. After the initial emailed request, we had 14 members immediately renew, and 13 more before the Hicks seminar early registration deadline. By the time that the letter asking members to renew was being prepared for mailing, we had 13 more renew. On October 30, a letter was sent out to 67 members whose memberships had expired in the last two years. By the time this letter was ready, 44 more members had sent in their renewals!

By the end of the weekend portion of the Angela and John Hicks seminar, 67 more members had renewed.

A final notice was sent January 28, 2009 to members who had not renewed, and the final tally was 85 who did not renew by the deadline, 20% of the membership which is not as good as the year before, but these are challenging times!

How large is MAS?

393 Members, consisting of:
311 Maryland licensed acupuncturists, 36 Students, 35 Out-of-State acupuncturists, 1 Organizations, 9 Allied health care practitioners, and 1 Associates.

*As of July 2008 there were 818 active acupuncturists licensed by the State of Maryland and 297 (36%) were members of MAS.