Do Most Surgeons Charge a Consultation Fee for Breast Augmentation?

At our office, we don't charge consultation fees, except when a legal opinion is being rendered.

Each office has their own policy.  Many offices will apply your consultation fee to the cost of surgery, but, of course, that makes it more difficult to "shop around" and compare.

We try to avoid putting any "roadblocks" in the way of our patients - so our consultation is complementary.

In general, most of the surgeons who are in demand charge consultation fees.  Often these fees are applied toward the cost of surgery.  The surgeons who do charge for a consultation tend to spend a lot of time with their patients giving them detailed information on the surgery and answering all their questions and carefully planning their surgery with the patient.  Often, surgeons who do not charge consultation fees may not be seeing the patient during the consult, rather an assistant see a high volume of patients for the consult, and patients that elect to have surgery are then only seen by the surgeon in their pre-op appointment.Best wishes,Pablo Prichard, MD