Dr. Charles Mok explains how PRP and PRF injections treat arthritis without insurance coverage. These platelet-rich therapies have moved beyond experimental stage, costs are dropping, and clinical evidence supports them as alternatives to surgery. Big Pharma's lack of involvement, not lack of efficacy, keeps insurers from covering them.
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They cover by your insurance. PRP and PRF is not covered by insurance. Stem cells are not covered by insurance, probably won't be anytime soon. But now this cost has really come down dramatically in terms of the cost of doing these joint injections. And the real take home message to this is that you have an option. You have an option that is, you know, the insurance companies might say it's experimental and they're not going to cover it. But this is beyond experimental phase. There's been tens of thousands of people in clinical studies, hundreds of thousands of people been treated, tens of thousands of people in clinical studies, studies treated successfully with arthritis and PRP or prf, tens of thousands successfully treated, don't need a whole lot more experiments. What stops insurance companies from covering these things are the lack of Big Pharma being the contributor to the supposed drug. This comes out of your own blood.