An initial consultation with your Specialist Plastic Surgeon will cost approximately $300-$360, which is payable in full at the time of booking your consultation. Your consultation will take approximately 30-60 minutes.
Your Specialist Plastic Surgeon will provide an indication of the likely costs, such as your surgeon’s fee, anaesthetist’s fees and hospital and theatre fees. Your surgeon’s fee includes all post-operative care and nurse dressings. Pricing will vary from case to case, but an indicative range of your surgeon’s fee is $7,000 to $8,500 excluding GST. Anaesthetist, hospital and theatre fees are additional.
There may be Medicare and private health insurance rebates available for certain types of tummy tuck procedures in Perth (e.g. following weight loss or muscle repair after pregnancy) depending on strict Medicare eligibility criteria. Your surgeon can provide you with more information, but you would then need to talk to your private health insurer to determine exactly how much cover they will provide and confirm what your final out-of-pocket costs will be.
Weight loss patients
To be eligible for Medicare item number 30177 for weight loss patients, you must fulfill the following criteria:
- there is intertrigo (common inflammatory skin condition that is caused by skin-to-skin friction) or another skin condition that risks loss of skin integrity and has failed 3 months of conventional (or non-surgical) treatment; and
- the redundant skin and fat interferes with the activities of daily living; and
- the weight has been stable for at least 6 months following significant weight loss, as defined as at least five BMI points or more (on average 15kg or more) unrelated to pregnancy, prior to the procedure.
Your GP referral to us should contain documented symptoms of pain and discomfort, along with evidence of non-responsive outcomes to non-surgical conservative treatment.
Muscle repair after pregnancy patients
To be eligible for Medicare item number 30175 for patients with muscle separation (diastasis) after pregnancy that is causing pain and require muscle repair, you must fulfill the following criteria:
- it is more than 12 months after the end of a pregnancy; and
- you have a diastasis (muscle gap) of at least 3cm measured by diagnostic imaging; and
- have documented symptoms of at least moderate severity of pain or discomfort at the site of the diastasis in the abdominal wall during functional use and/or low back pain or urinary symptoms likely due to rectus diastasis; and
- have failed to respond to non-surgical conservative treatment including physiotherapy (acceptable examples of conservative non-surgical treatment include symptomatic management with pain medication, lower back braces, lifestyle changes, physiotherapy and/or exercise).
Please be aware that the 30175 item number is applicable only once per lifetime. Make sure your GP referral includes diagnostic imaging, documented symptoms of pain and discomfort, as well as evidence of unresponsiveness to non-surgical conservative treatment.
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