Insurance Coverage for Lipoma Removal?

Lipoma removal is usually covered by most of the insurance companies. Lipoma is a fatty tumor that should be removed and sent to the pathology for the examination. Before scheduling make sure it is a covered benefit under your insurance policy.

Some insurance companies consider lipoma removal to be a cosmetic Susie so they may it b me at not cover removal. Fortunately lipoma removal is usually done in office under local anesthesia to keep the cost reasonable.

In our experience, it is very uncommon to have insurance cover for the removal of a lipoma. However, this depends entirely on your personal insurance plan. Many of the insurance plans and we have worked with, consider this to be a benign condition and an elective procedure. They use this as their rationalization to not compensate for this surgery.