This process can take up to six months depending on your insurance provider. Insurance companies use the pre-authorization process to ensure that your surgery is covered. After you have had your first appointment, we can contact them to obtain a pre-authorization prior to the surgery. The purpose is to maximize breast growth in order to obtain better surgical (aesthetic results).īefore your appointment, we advise that you contact your insurance carrier to determine whether transgender chest surgery is a covered benefit. If significant medical or mental health concerns are present, they must be reasonably well controlled.Īlthough not an explicit criterion, it is recommended that transfeminine patients undergo feminizing hormone therapy (minimum 12 months) prior to breast augmentation surgery.
Capacity to make a fully informed decision and to consent for treatment.Persistent, well documented gender dysphoria.The providers follow the WPATH Standards of Care, which recommend one letter from a qualified mental health care prior to the surgery: Criteria for Breast Augmentation in Transfeminine Patients You will be required to temporarily stop the hormones prior to surgery to decrease the risk of blood clots. It is typically performed after at least one year of hormone therapy to allow for maximal breast growth. Transfeminine chest surgery involves breast implants and sometimes fat grafting to increase the size and improve the shape of the breasts.
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