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The
Cost of Prolotherapy
Ross Hauser, M.D.
For people without insurance, many
pain therapies are too expensive.
Physical therapy
and
chiropractic
therapies can run about $200 per session. Prescription pain medications
can be several hundred dollars per month. What if you don’t have
insurance and the doctor is recommending an
EMG/NCV test ($1200) or an
MRI
($2500). What about if
Arthroscopy
has been recommended ($13,000) or
surgery ($25,000)?
Many people that I see work for
themselves. They do not have good insurance plans. These people
love Prolotherapy. Most joints cost $250 to treat per session. Most
joint/ligament/tendon injuries are treated once per month for three to
six months. So say a person gets one joint treated every month for four
months, they will end up spending a $1000 for the Prolotherapy over a
four month period. Yes, there is the $250 new patient consultation fee
and I’ll probably want them on $100 worth of supplements every month.
The total cost may be in the order of $1650 for a chronic knee problem,
for instance. But the good news is, often that is it! No more
treatments. Have a nice life. During the time the person is getting
Prolotherapy, they can still work and earn money. So if they get
Prolotherapy over a four month period, that is a total of 120 days.
$1650 divided by 120 days ends up costing the person about $13 per day
for 4 months to rid themselves of their chronic knee pain.
While this is not inexpensive by any means, the patients I see come
because their pain often is keeping them from working. So often after
the first Prolotherapy treatment, they get some pain relief and can get
back to working. Granted $13 per day of their work will end up going for
the Prolotherapy, but that beats a $2500 MRI or the time they would need
to be off work if they had an arthroscopy or surgery done.
Physical therapy and chiropractic care can
work wonders on some people, but the therapy can get expensive. If you
have to pay out of pocket, it can quickly add up to thousands upon
thousands of dollars. If there is a ligament, meniscus, or tendon tear
or injury involved, most likely this type of treatment will not
permanently cure the person of the pain. People who have to pay the bill
themselves want to get a treatment that they believe will cure them of
their pain. Many of these people get Prolotherapy.
Because Caring Medical does so much
Prolotherapy, we are able to keep our costs down. For many it is
actually cheaper to get Prolotherapy at Caring Medical then by the
Prolotherapist in their own state. We have heard people spending
thousands and thousands of dollars for Prolotherapy at a clinic closer
to their home, but without results. We commonly see patients who feel
they are good
Prolotherapy
candidates come to Caring Medical for a
second opinion about Prolotherapy and end up seeing us for their care.
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