Top 5 MOST Expensive Plastic Surgery Procedures
As promised, here’s our next installment of our “Top 5” series. Before reading below about the Top 5 Most Expensive Plastic Surgery Procedures, you can look back in our blog about the Top 5 Least Expensive Procedures by clicking here. Here are the top 5 most expensive plastic surgery procedures as determined by […]
First Weekend in Our New Hometown (San Francisco)
First weekend in San Francisco. 37th Annual Union Street festival – check. Brisk jog down to the Marina, with a pass by the Bar Method – check. Signed up for Uber cab – check. Picked up my badge for California Pacific Medical Center – check. Visit to my new office at Pacific Heights Plastic Surgery […]
The Cost of Cosmetic Surgery…but more informative!
So I’m looking at a weekly email that I receive which highlights new articles in the media pertaining to plastic surgery. As a plastic surgeon, it’s natural for me to want to stay up to date on the latest developments. But as the founder of BuildMyBod, a website that provides total price estimates on cosmetic […]
What Hospital’s Charge vs What They Get Paid: A Health Care Blame Game
A recent article by the Washington Post found here, discusses a new era in price transparency at first glance. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Federal agency that pays hospitals and doctors for services rendered to patients, released the prices that hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures. The idea is to […]
Plastic Surgery Financing [Infographic]
A not-so-recent survey (2005) about the “wealth” of consumers undergoing cosmetic procedures such as BOTOX®Cosmetic or cosmetic surgery like breast augmentation, showed that they aren’t in actuality, very wealthy. So how do patients afford plastic surgery – with plastic surgery financing! The survey above came from a poll of 644 people, performed by the […]
Arm Lift – Is it worth the scar?
As you may have seen recently in the media, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) released additional statistical information on their annual survey of cosmetic and reconstructive procedures performed in the past year (2012 in this case). They found that the arm lift is becoming a much more common procedure than in the past. […]
Top 5 LEAST Expensive Plastic Surgery Procedures
In search of another top 5 list?! Well here’s the top 5 least expensive plastic surgery procedures. This is the beginning of a series of blog posts over the next several weeks where we highlight the “top 5” plastic surgery something or other. While many people are receiving their tax refund checks this time of […]
Why New Orleans is the best convention city in the US
I just finished exhibiting at the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery’s (ASAPS) Aesthetic Meeting. It was a great meeting with lots of traffic to our exhibit booth. One of our biggest draws was our charging station – an idea for whom our Marketing Director gets credit! This was my first time exhibiting […]
Price Transparency in Healthcare – The Latest Buzzword!
Unless you’re totally oblivious to all forms of media from TV, print, or internet, you’ve probably heard about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or ObamaCare. One of the main goals of the legislation is to bring down healthcare costs by several means (cutting reimbursements, decreasing the amount insurance companies spend on salaries, etc) but one […]
ASPS Procedural Statistics 2012 and BuildMyBod Total Plastic Surgery Pricing
As you may have read or seen recently, the American Society of Plastic Surgery released their 2012 procedural statistics. What this means is, the ASPS, the main trade organization for plastic surgeons, compiles the number of procedures performed by its members. And from this information, releases its annual report which shows trends and statistics of […]