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Insurance and Cosmetic Nasal Surgery in Beverly Hills
By admin | June 24, 2009
By definition, a cosmetic procedure is one that is unrelated to bodily function. It is just a matter of improving your appearance. Health insurance policies cover illness and are not written to underwrite vanity surgery.
However, some patients need to combine functional surgery with cosmetic surgery and that makes sense. It certainly is logical to have one operation with one anesthesia and one recovery period that accomplishes two goals. So, if you can’t breathe, be sure to call that to the attention of your surgeon before the day of the surgery. The cosmetic surgeon will want to evaluate your nasal passages and see if there is a deviated septum, allergies or enlarged turbinates. If so, those can be corrected such that you will breathe better and those components of the operation may be eligible for insurance coverage.
It is always wise to ask the doctor to give you the computer code numbers for these functional procedures so that you can check it out with your insurance company and confirm that they will pay.
Remember, the insurance company is also obligated to pay the surgical facility, whether it be a hospital or outpatient surgery center and the anesthesia specialist also.
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