The total cost for your procedure consists of several components, all of which are necessary for surgery to be conducted safely:
The hospital fee: This usually includes necessary small consumables such as dressings and sutures, but also nursing care and organisational staff.
The Surgeon’s fees: This is detailed below, but usually includes routine post-operative care for six weeks.
The surgical assistant’s fees: Not required for every procedure, but a highly qualified surgical assistant may be necessary to enable your Surgeon to perform your procedure in the most reliable and timely fashion. Medicare or private health insurance rebates may apply to part of this fee.
The Anaesthetists’ fee: Whilst your Surgeon works closely with your Anaesthetist, we do not have direct influence over the Anaesthetist’s fees. We are happy to provide a very general guide to an expected Anaesthetic fee at the time of your quote.
Medical imaging or pathology fees may apply.
Additional equipment fees: This may include implants, specific surgical instruments or garments.
Surgery fees:
For patients with private health insurance, your insurance will generally contribute a part of the surgeon’s fees. This differs depending on your policy inclusions.
It is recommended that you confirm your cover and any exclusions with your insurer.
The amount that your private insurance does not cover (‘the gap’) reflects the components of private Specialist Plastic Surgery not covered by Medicare nor your private insurance.
The proportion of the total surgeon’s fee that is ‘the gap’ reflects several components of your care, such as the nature of the underlying condition and complexity of planning and surgery.
As part of informed financial consent, you will be provided with a written estimate of the surgeon’s fees prior to scheduling any surgery.
Please be aware that we do not set the fees for private hospitals nor our Anaesthetic colleagues (but we will provide a general indication), and any discussion regarding fees should be confirmed with them directly.
Cosmetic procedures:
There exist strict criteria governing the applicability of Medicare and private insurance rebates for surgical procedures. Where your procedure does not qualify for a rebate (e.g. platysmaplasty (neck lift) or breast augmentation), there will be no contribution to your total procedure cost from Medicare or private health insurance.
For these patients, we will provide an estimate of fees prior to scheduling surgery. Please be aware that unforeseen additional care requirements (e.g. extended post-operative stay or medical imaging) may attract additional costs.