Is Medically Necessary Liposuction.. Ever Covered by Insurance?

Liposuction has never been or ever will be covered by health insurances.  Some docs did it yrs ago under the disquise  of a tummy tuck or laparoscopy surgery but it was illegal. 

You will have to consult your insurance provider to find out if your liposuction is covered. However, in general, the answer would be no unless it would resolve a physical impairment directly caused by excess subcutaneous fat in the area you want to target, and liposuction is proven to be the most suitable treatment for you. In your case, a healthy diet and exercise may be recommended instead.However, you may be able to still cover your surgery with financing. Payments can be as little as a couple hundred dollars a month.

I have never had an insurance company cover liposuction, no matter what the reasons are.  I suspect they would want you to try to explore other methods of weight loss first.  

I'd also recommend seeing your GI specialist to see if anything else can be done for your troublesome GERD.

 

Best wishes,

I'm sure this is not the answer you were looking for but liposuction for your abdomen would not be covered by your insurance as they would consider it a cosmetic procedure.  You should explore all avenues to help you lose weight and reduce your abdominal bulge.  Liposuction is not and should not be used as a weight loss procedure.  The effort put into your weight loss may be difficult but is needed and will pay off in many other benefits as well.

Being overweight will not be corrected by liposuction. Once the surgery is done, you will regain weight if your calorie consumption and exercise regimen doesn't change. To say that losing weight will not redistribute the volume of fat is probably not correct. Once weight is reduced, and the fat diminishes, the shape will improve and your symptoms will be addressed. This will give you a long term solution to your problem. Seek consultation with a nutritionist to help guide you through the process and possibly use a trainer to embark on a healthy exercise routine.

Liposuction is not a means of weight loss and is not covered by insurance companies as it is deemed a cosmetic procedure. From El Paso.

The insurance company will not consider this an adequate reason to justify coverage of the procedure. If you have a human resources department, you may be able to take up your cause with them but your chances of success are minimal.

Liposuction is considered a cosmetic procedure most of the time. It is usually not covered by medical insurance, except in certain situations such as breast reconstruction after breast cancer. Additionally, liposuction is not a treatment for obesity. However, it might benefit your situation when combined with healthy diet and exercise.

At 5'6" and 175 lbs., you are obese but not morbidly obese. Liposuction is not a treatment for weight loss, and is virtually never covered by any insurance plan for any reason, but certainly not for the abdominal fat you describe as contributing to your GERD, as well as problems with your vaginal repair.

Unfortunately, unless you become morbidly obese, insurance does not cover weight loss surgery such as gastric bypass or lap band procedures, so you are in that gray zone where your obesity is affecting your health, and no one but you will take responsibility for weight loss. (BTW, liposuction can safely remove no more than about 11 pounds in one operation; more is considered surgically unsafe, and you need to lose substantially more than this anyway.)

Losing weight WILL correct the excess fat. But unless YOU believe that, it will never happen, and I fear for your health if you continue in this denial. Please talk to your doctor about ways to lose weight and get started. Liposuction, covered or not, is NOT the answer! Good luck!

Liposuction is always done for the reasons you describe: Localized fat ccumulation that for whatever reason you can't get rid of. In your case you may have more than the usual difficulties trying to lose the fat, but your health insurance will categorically deny it regardless. From your description it sounds more likely that you would need a tummy tuck, but the same restriction applies re insurance.

Liposuction is never considered medically necessary.  If you decide to have liposuction, your insurance will not cover it.  If you are looking for weight loss surgery, then you may want to ask your primary care provider for a referral to a bariatric surgery clinic.  The bariatric surgeries are sometimes covered by insurance.  However, these are not cosmetic surgeries.

Good luck.