Plastic Surgery Question

Hi,   I'm interested in knowing about how much your plastic surgery cost you.. I know insurance doens't pay for it.. Atleast not for cosmetic reasons.   Just curious to hear from people from around the states as to what you had to pay.

Thanks
Kathy

Guess what...insurance won't pay for medical reasons either! 

After going through two years of cellulitis infections and  walking intereference, other health complications from the extra skin, and my doctor urging me to have it removed,  my state's Medicaid approved it (I am disabled, but working to get off after weight loss of 240 pounds), but the doctors won't even try to file with insurance, even though my state's medical review board approved it!  With no appeal! Both doctors I chose refused to even run my Medicare primary insurance, because they siad it wouldn't be approved.   The truth is, it wouldn't be approved for the money they'd get from a cash paying patient.  Once the Medicaid approval runs out, I would have to start the approval process over again.  They don't do extensions.

I did some cost estimates after the docs I had chosen made it impossible for me to have the surgery, and with what needs to be done with the amount of skin I have, my surgery would cost in the neighborhood of $20,000 for everything.  Because of the amount of skin, it needs to be an inpatient procedure, with a couple days in the hospital.

My skin issue is on my thighs.  I carried most of my weight below the waist, and a thighplasty is considred cosmetic, even for medical reasons.

I had a hernia. Insurance paid for tummy to prevent recurrance of the hernia. I paid for a breast lift/augmentation and arm lift at the same time. My cost was about $8000 and worth every penny!