Veterans
For Veterans — Medical Massage Through VA Community Care
If you are a veteran living with pain, the VA can refer you to medical massage therapy in your own community — at little to no cost to you. Here is exactly how it works, and where we honestly are in the process.
Join the First-in-Line List
Palm Springs Spa Massage is currently completing credentialing with the VA Community Care Network — administered in California by TriWest — and with the provider networks that refer patients for medical massage therapy. We are not yet an authorized VA Community Care provider, and we do not yet bill insurance. Veterans: call us at (760) 808-4205 and we will place you on our first-in-line list — when authorizations open, our waitlist is called first, in order. Referring providers: we welcome your call now, so your practice is on file with us from day one.
How VA Community Care Works
Three Steps Between You and Treatment
Ask Your VA Provider
At your VA appointment — or by secure message — tell your care team about your pain and ask for a referral for medical massage therapy. Massage therapy is one of the VA's recognized complementary health services for pain care.
The VA Authorizes
When community care is approved, the VA issues an authorization — typically 12 sessions to start, with more authorized if you are improving. The VA sends the authorization to your chosen community provider.
We Treat You
You come to us — a local, family-owned practice, not a distant clinic — and we treat to your plan and report your progress back to your VA care team. Your cost is little to none, the same as care at a VA facility.
What It Treats
The Pain So Many Veterans Carry
VA referrals for medical massage most often address back pain, neck pain, joint and myofascial pain, headaches, fibromyalgia, post-surgical recovery and scar tissue, and related conditions. Our full conditions list — and how we treat each — is on the Conditions We Treat page.
Close to Home
We serve the whole Morongo Basin — Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree — and the Coachella Valley, with a hosted clinical setting in Palm Desert and mobile treatment where permitted. No long drive to a VA facility for every session.
A Practice That Knows This Community
Family owned since 1999, in a house full of military families and neighbors. You will be known by name here — and your service will be honored in how we care for you.
Be First in Line
We are completing credentialing with the VA Community Care Network (administered in California by TriWest) and are not yet an authorized VA provider. Call (760) 808-4205 to join the first-in-line list.