Five Plastic Surgery Procedures that your Insurance should cover

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If you’re considering plastic surgery, you may want to know which procedures are likely to be covered by insurance. Here are some procedures that we think should be covered by insurance – but then this is our view. You will have to check with your surgeon and insurance company.

Eyelid Surgery: If your upper eyelids are starting to fall over your eyeballs so that your vision is obscured, insurance should cover the surgery. Average cost of eyelid surgery in the United States: $3825. Number of blepharoplasties done in 2006: 210,000 according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS).

Breast Reduction: Women with very large breasts experience back and neck pain, as well as shoulder grooving – when the weight on a woman’s bra straps have worn notches into her shoulder bones.

The total cost of breast reduction surgery averages about $8500 in the United States. That usually covers the surgeons’ fees, facility costs, the anesthesiologist, post-op visits and medicines.

In 2006, plastic surgeons performed 104,455 breast reduction procedures, according to the ASPS.

Breast Reconstruction: Breast reconstruction is usually done after mastectomy, to rebuild the female breast.

Hand Surgery: Plastic surgeons are highly skilled in operating on tiny bodily structures so many also perform hand surgery, usually to relieve carpal tunnel syndrome. But the surgeons may also rejoin amputated fingers or even move a toe to a hand so a person can work again.

Hand surgery rejoins nerves, muscles, tendons and bones to bring back normal function and feeling. The various types of hand surgery vary so much in costs, an average cost can’t be pinned down.

Facial tumor removal: A plastic or dermatological surgeon may have to take off a dangerous facial growth, like basal cell carcinoma and then transplant some donor skin over the wound.

Your insurance company needs to know the plastic or dermatological surgeon is preventing a much more, expensive condition, something that will cost them even more money in the long run.

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