Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter talks with a patient about choosing elective treatments like PRP and bone marrow aspirate to avoid shoulder replacement surgery. The patient paid out of pocket for these therapies because insurance won't cover them.
Insurance doesn't cover the really amazing things in medicine. Right. It doesn't cover bone marrow aspirin, it doesn't cover prp, doesn't cover these laser therapies, it doesn't cover these programs. What types of concerns did you have prior to the procedure? I know when we talked, we basically decided that we needed surgery, and our recommendation was to augment that surgery as best we could. You know, insurance doesn't cover the really amazing things in medicine. Right. It doesn't cover bone marrow aspirin, doesn't cover prp, it doesn't cover these laser therapies, it doesn't cover these programs. And so what was your decision process there led you to want to participate with us in these?
I guess I went the above and beyond because the thought of a replacement was something that just I did not want to do. I did not want to have shoulder replacement done.
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