About this policy
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Coverage indications
Retaining Medicare's Current Coverage Policy Dr. Abraham submitted a number of additional materials to support his request. The materials included some articles describing the technique and increased awareness of prolotherapy, as well as some listings of conferences and member organizations in which prolotherapy is taught and practiced. While this information supports Dr. Abraham's contention that prolotherapy has many disciples, it does not provide HCFA with any scientific evidence on which to base a coverage decision, nor does it prove that treating low back pain with prolotherapy has evolved into the prevailing standard of care. Some of the materials Dr. Abraham provided noted that further studies on the benefits of prolotherapy are now being conducted. Should these additional studies be developed with larger sample sizes and should the results be based on objective measures that can clearly attribute the claimed benefits to the therapy under investigation, HCFA would be happy to reconsider the issue.
Codes in this policy
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