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MCS Alivia

MCS Alivia​

Alternative and complimentary medicine.


Finally, a plan that offers access to natural health services such as acupuncture, Chinese medicine, therapeutic massage, naturopathic medicine, and other therapeutic methods.

Who can benefit from this program?

Patients with:

  • Multiple chronic conditions: asthma, allergies and gastrointestinal conditions, amongst others
  • Muscle-skeletal conditions
  • Chronic and acute pain
  • Neurological conditions: migraines, neuropathies, and facial paralysis amongst others

These type of therapies are focused on:

  • Preventing, promoting, and maintaining good health
  • Care and relief of incurable illnesses
  • Avoid a premature death
  • A cost-effective medical therapy
  • Reduces absenteeism from work
  • Live a full and healthy life


This benefit may not be included in your coverage. Call our Customer Service Call Center to verify the information, if needed.

For more information, call our Customer Service Department at

Metro area 787.281.2800Toll Free 1.888.758.1616

MCS Alivia Centers

AGUADILLA

BODY ALIGN
STRUCTURA MASSAGE HEALTH

HC 7 BOX 39597
Tel. (787)238-7909

BAYAMON

INTEGRAL COMPLETARIA
CTR UNV MED

PO BOX 60327
Tel. (787)269-0988

CAROLINA

INST DE ACUPUNTURA DEL CARIBE
VILLA FONTANA VIA ELENA A L-5
Tel. (787)762-9424

CAROLINA

INST DE ACUPUNTURA DEL CARIBE
VILLA FONTANA VIA ELENA A L-5
Tel. (787)762-9424

DORADO

ARMONIA NATURAL INC
PO BOX 321
Tel. (787)796-3380

MANATI

ARMONIA NATURAL INC
PO BOX 321
Tel. (787)884-7024 ext. 2110

MAYAGUEZ

ACUPATI INC
PO BOX 190
Tel. (787)831-7173

MAYAGUEZ

CENTRO DE TERAPIA MUSCULAR LLC
MEDICAL CENTER PLAZA 740 AVE HOSTOS STE 212
Tel. (787)949-6590

San Juan

Everest Medical Center
Cond. Dalia Hills Box 15
Tel. 787.782.6736

SAN JUAN

ALTERNATIVA MODERNA MEDIC ESPEC
877 CAMPO RICO AVE COUNTRY CLUB
Tel. (787)594-2915

SAN JUAN

CONDADO WELLNESS CENTER
100 PASEO SAN PABLO SUITE 503
Tel. (787)230-7557

SAN JUAN

CTR MED FAM Y MED IN Y COMPLEMENTARI
PO BOX 29568 65 DE INFANTERIA STATION
Tel. (787)754-7133

SAN JUAN

EVEREST MEDICAL CENTER
1273 AVE AMERICO MIRANDA
Tel. (787)782-6736

SAN JUAN

PAIN BUSTERS
PO BOX 79112
Tel. (787)550-9166

SAN SEBASTIAN

CLN DE MED ALTERNATI BIENESTAR SOC
PO BOX 2
Tel. (787)810-3441

VEGA ALTA

ANGELORUM INC
PO BOX 356
Tel. (787)270-4747

Services and disciplines

Primary conventional medicine

Conventional medicine care provided by family medicine specialists, Chinese medicine, and acupuncture.

Medical acupuncture:

Acupuncture is based in the body’s ability to regenerate and cure itself through stimulus produced by the insertion and manipulation of needled or other instrument in determined points in the skin. These points have been clinically defined for therapeutic purposes.

Therapeutic massage:

Massage therapy is based on the holistic conception of the human being. It perceives illness as the breakage of the constant flow of energy, nutrients, and wellness that guarantees the optimal health. A combination of specialized technique’s using, the hands, elbows, and some auxiliary instruments are used to activate the body’s blood flow and the energy needed to promote the reconstitution of the patient’s health.

Pranic Healing:

This discipline consists in the treatment of different conditions by balancing the vital energy within or surrounding the body. This therapeutic method is based on the belief that the body has life-giving energy, which many scientists call electromagnetic energy o bio-energy. Therapists work with the patient’s energy with the purpose to improve his/her general health.

Botanical Medicine:

Consists in the use of plants or plant’s byproducts with curative properties for the treatment of illnesses. This therapy has different administration forms, including tea infusions, capsules, injections, tinctures, suppositories, compresses, baths or lotions. It is also known as herbology, or herbal remedies medicine.

Aromatherapy:

It uses the therapeutic, psychological, and physiological properties of pure essential oils through different methods: by inhalation, diffusers, compresses, aroma-therapeutic massage, and mud poultices (in specific zones) to obtain the adequate balance between mind, body, and spirit to achieve health.

Music Therapy:

It uses music with a therapeutic purpose. This discipline is aimed at opening communication channels through sounds, rhythm, gestures, movement, and silence at a psychological, physical, and cognitive level. Music Therapy is widely used to treat mental conditions, addictions, depression, and hyperactivity or hypoactivity, among others.

Hypnosis therapy:

Medical treatment technique used in a special sleep state or active sleep where it is possible to partially inhibit some active areas in the brain. Different from regular sleep, where the brain is inhibited in a general manner. Hypnotherapy is used to treat emotional and physical conditions.

Naturopathic Medicine:

Medical services system based on the stimulation principles of the innate healing powers of nature and our own bodies. Naturopathic medicine educates patients to take care of their own health. It uses botanical medicine, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, chelation, and acupuncture, among other therapies to treat the patient’s health conditions.

Traditional Chinese Medicine:

Group of healing techniques and methods based on traditional Chinese medicine. This healing system is comprised of several methods such as the stimulation of acupuncture points through different techniques like needles, laser, electricity, heat, massages (acu-pressure), magnets, bleedings, injections, auricular therapy, cranial acupuncture, Chinese herbs, nutrition and oriental foods, oriental massage (Tuina), and exercises (Q gong, Tai-chi).

Chiropractics:

It is based on the concept that the vital energy found in human beings travels through the spinal cord and that any interference to the flow of energy causes a pathology that results in illness. The chiropractor, through different spinal chord adjustment techniques, restores the normal energetic flow until the patient’s symptoms disappear partially or completely.

Reflexology:

It’s a specialized technique that provides treatment for different health conditions through the activation of acupressure points in hands and feet. This technique is based on the usage of body maps that identify the acupressure points used in traditional Chinese medicine.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​