Breast lifts are not generally covered by insurance. In rare cases in which a breast lift is deemed medically necessary, insurance may cover a portion or all of the cost. Normally a breast lift is considered cosmetic surgery and insurances denied coverage.
Thank you for your question! For a straight forward breast lift, insurance carriers view this as an aesthetic procedure. As a result, it would be very unlikely for an insurance company to cover this procedure unless you were a transgender woman with "really good insurance". A breast reduction is a sort of breast lift, but we remove breast tissue. It use to be that insurance companies were much better at covering breast reductions, but even now it's difficult to get these covered unless you go through all the necessary loops to make a case for your breasts to be problematic and interfering with activities of daily living. Even then, they may deny you a breast reduction. Another option that could possibly work would be for a very unsymmetrical preoperative evaluation that causes embarrassment and affects one's confidence. This wouldn't be so much for lifting your breasts to look more perky, rather a way to make your appearance more symmetrical and assist with a quality of life improvement issue. I hope this helps!
Insurance does not pay for a breast lift unless it is part or a reconstructive procedure for breast cancer or part of a medically necessary breast reduction. Otherwise, insurance companies view a breast lift as an elective cosmetic procedure.
