University hospital sports medicine service offering platelet and bone marrow injections for sports and joint injuries, with named academic physicians.
This is the regenerative medicine service within the Sports Medicine Institute of the University of Miami Health System, part of the university's Miller School of Medicine. It is an academic hospital programme that treats patients, not a laboratory. Care is delivered by university-employed sports medicine physicians as part of a wider orthopaedic and sports medicine service that also includes diagnostics, screening and physical therapy.
Three types of injection treatment are described. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is made by spinning a sample of the patient's own blood to concentrate the platelets. Bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) uses cells drawn from the patient's own bone marrow. A third option uses stem cells taken from the patient's own fat, obtained by lipo-aspiration. Injections are placed using ultrasound guidance. The service positions these treatments as an option for patients whose problems have not settled with conservative care such as physical therapy, and before considering surgery.
Importantly, the service states plainly that most insurance plans, including Medicare, do not pay for PRP injections or for stem cell injections. Because this is a university health system, an interpreter service and a general international patient office are available, and the website offers a Spanish-language version.
All material used comes from the patient's own body; no donor or umbilical cord products are described.
The service operates from the University of Miami Sports Medicine Institute, part of the University of Miami Health System in Miami, Florida, across several locations listed on the health system website. A specific street address for the regenerative medicine clinic is not given on the page reviewed. The health system provides a Spanish-language version of its site and an international patients service.
No prices are published. The service states that most insurance plans, including Medicare, do not pay for PRP or stem cell injections, so patients should expect to pay for these injections themselves and should ask the billing office for a figure in advance.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.