How Varied Are Facility and Anesthesia Fees in Plastic Surgery?

Anesthesia and facility fees vary widely according to location (hospital vs surgicenter vs office) as well as practitioner (physician-surgeon vs physician-anesthesiologist  vs nurse anesthetist). So ask what you are being charged for and compare apples to apples.

Dear Doberman
Even for Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, these anesthesia and facility fees are high. Yet if you are set on your surgeon, you really have little choice but to pay the fees charged by the surgery center they wan to use. I operate at UCLA. There the facility fee for a facelift and upper eyelid surgery would be $2200. The anesthesia service charges by the hour at the rate of $300 per hour. So a facelift and eyelid surgery at the outside might run 5 hours and cost $1500 and that is UCLA.
If there is a medical issue, you are not is a private operatiing room with a single anesthesiologist or a nurse anesthetist. You are at a center with a dozen anesthesia personel. So fees higher than this are hard to justify. However, many of the private surgery centers are co-owned by the surgeons who operate their. Essentially they get a split of the case at the surgery centers they own. If you are not happy with the fees, see some additional surgeons. The town is filled with plastic surgeons. You have choices.