About Wig Medical
Wig Medical trains and certifies Cranial Prosthesis Specialists. We teach stylists and hair professionals how to fit medical wigs for people losing their hair to cancer treatment, alopecia, and other medical conditions — and how the insurance side actually works.
- Online certification, available at your own pace
- Live in-person certification events throughout the year
- The CPS Society for continuing education and community
- A managed cranial-prosthesis network in development for patient access
What is Wig Medical?
Wig Medical is a United States training and certification company for Cranial Prosthesis Specialists. It teaches hair professionals to consult on, measure, and fit cranial prostheses for medical hair loss and to handle the insurance documentation involved, runs the CPS Society for continuing education, and helps patients understand what their insurance may cover.
- Cranial Prosthesis Specialist certification is available online and at live in-person events
- The CPS Society provides continuing education, billing guidance, and community after certification
- A public directory lists specialists who have completed the certification training
- Wig Medical is building a managed cranial-prosthesis network with its own qualification and credentialing
- Wig Medical does not diagnose or treat medical conditions and does not guarantee insurance coverage
Nobody was teaching this
Stylists and wig professionals kept running into the same wall. Clients were losing their hair to cancer treatment, alopecia, and scarring conditions, and nobody had taught them how to fit a prosthesis on a bare or tender scalp, how to work with textured hair on a medical unit, or what a letter of medical necessity even was. The technical side was learnable on your own. The insurance side was not.
So Wig Medical built the training. The Cranial Prosthesis Specialist certification covers consultation and sensitivity, measurement and fitting, textured and sensitive-scalp work, medical wig insurance claims and documentation, and how to actually build the business around it. It runs online and at live in-person certification events, and the CPS Society keeps specialists current after they qualify.
Certification solved one half of the problem. The other half is that patients still struggle to find qualified help, still do not know the term cranial prosthesis, and still have nobody coordinating the insurance and documentation that stands between them and a prosthesis they medically need. That is what the managed cranial-prosthesis network is being built to do, and it is growing alongside the education business.
What Wig Medical is not
Wig Medical is not a medical practice. It does not diagnose or treat the causes of hair loss, does not replace your physician, and does not guarantee that any insurance plan will cover or pay for a cranial prosthesis. It also does not supervise or employ the specialists listed in its directory, who are independent professionals who completed its training.
The parts of Wig Medical
Six things, all pointed at the same outcome: more qualified specialists, and more people getting the prosthesis they need.
| What it is | What it does | Who it serves |
|---|---|---|
| CPS Certification | Training and certification covering consultation, measurement, fitting, textured and sensitive-scalp work, insurance claims, and business practice. Online and live in person. | Stylists, salon owners, wig retailers, and hair-loss professionals |
| Live certification events | In-person certification with hands-on fitting practice and direct instruction, run in different cities through the year. | Anyone who learns better hands-on |
| CPS Society | Continuing education, billing and compliance guidance, marketing and growth resources, and community. | Certified specialists |
| Specialist directory | A public listing of people who have completed the certification training, browsable by state and city. | Patients looking for help, and certified specialists wanting visibility |
| Patient support | Free insurance benefit review, guidance on the documentation a plan requires, and help finding a specialist. | People with medical hair loss and those who refer them |
| Provider Network | In development. A managed network with its own qualification, credentialing, and case routing, separate from certification. | Certified specialists who want to receive patient cases |
What we hold to
Say the true thing
If a plan will not cover it, we say so on day one instead of letting someone find out after they have ordered. Honest beats optimistic every time in this business.
Treat people like people
Nobody arrives here on a good day. Private appointments, no pressure to buy, and no pretending this is a shopping trip.
Teach the boring part
Prescriptions, diagnosis codes, prior authorisation, proof of delivery. It is unglamorous and it is the actual difference between a covered prosthesis and a bill.
Raise the whole field
Training more qualified specialists is the work, not a side project. Everything else depends on it.
Find your path
Start with the free pre-course
See what the profession actually involves before you spend a dollar on it.