Cost minimization while ensuring safety of reduction mammaplasty
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Reduction mammaplasty has long been performed for the correction of symptoms associated with macromastia and for psychosocial reasons. With rising health care costs, there is increased scrutiny of the relative cost and/or benefit of many therapeutic interventions with the view to determining who or what does and does not get covered by insurance plans. When the present study was first proposed, a data evaluation indicated that during 1992, the Quebec provincial health care plan paid the bill for 7192 reduction mammaplasties. This resulted in payment of professional surgical and anesthesia fees of $2,540,130 and $1,078,800, respectively. At an average duration of 3.3 days of inpatient care, an additional $12,816,144 in costs was incurred on hospital global budgets. These data result in a total annual cost estimate of over $16 million, of which 78% relates to hospital costs. In Quebec’s present health care system, with the cost of reduction mammaplasty being covered by the provincial health insurance plan, women from all ethnic groups and at all levels
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