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SAN FRANCISCO � What if you couldn't accomplish circadian activities, such as appliance or active with your children, because of ever ample breasts that acquired amaranthine pain? Despite absolute accurate studies that outline the medical alarm for breast reduction, abounding allowance companies are abstinent bags of women the action anniversary year because of rigid, unfounded altitude to defended coverage, according to a abstraction presented today at the American Association of Artificial Surgeons (ASPS) Artificial Anaplasty 2006 appointment in San Francisco.
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"People generally anticipate breast abridgement is an constituent corrective procedure, but the majority of women gluttonous this anaplasty are accurately debilitated by their breasts," said Michael Wheatley, MD, ASPS Member Surgeon and cardboard co-author. "The belief best allowance companies use is not accurate by medical abstract and eliminates a ample cardinal of women from coverage, banishment them to bulwark for themselves."
Most allowance companies crave patients to display specific signs and affection above-mentioned to acknowledging breast abridgement as medically necessary. The bulk of tissue removed to abate affection associated with ever ample breasts is the best arguable of all allowance criteria.
The authors advised the breast abridgement behavior of 87 bloom allowance companies. Despite adverse medical studies, 85 companies crave a minimum bulk of tissue to be removed to awning the action � 49 of these companies crave a minimum bulk to be removed absolute of the patient's acme and weight.
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According to appear studies, although best patients accept a one-and-a-half to two cup admeasurement reduction, the bulk of tissue removed, anatomy weight, akin of obesity, or bra cup admeasurement do not affect the allowances that patients accept from breast reduction.
Many allowance companies crave that patients display all of the afterward affection to accept advantage for breast reduction: back, neck, shoulder, and arm pain; rashes; bra band grooves; and asleep in the high torso. The authors begin that while best patients ache from abounding of these symptoms, rarely do they display all.
According to Dr. Wheatley, best patients are women amid 30 and 50 years old who accept had high ashen affliction for years. Abounding of them accept approved assorted treatments, including concrete analysis and affliction medications, to administer the affliction afore axis to breast reduction. However, abounding of these women are still angry abroad by their allowance companies.
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According to ASPS statistics, added than 114,000 breast reductions were performed in 2005.
For referrals to ASPS Member Surgeons certified by the American Board of Artificial Surgery, alarm 888-4-PLASTIC (475-2784) or appointment www.plasticsurgery.org area you can additionally apprentice added about corrective and reconstructive artificial surgery.
The American Association of Artificial Surgeons is the better alignment of board-certified artificial surgeons in the world. With added than 6,000 members, the association is accustomed as a arch ascendancy and advice antecedent on corrective and reconstructive artificial surgery. ASPS comprises 94 percent of all board-certified artificial surgeons in the United States. Founded in 1931, the association represents physicians certified by The American Board of Artificial Anaplasty or The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Note: The abstraction "Reduction Mammoplasty: A Review of Managed Care Medical Policy Criteria" is actuality presented Sunday, Oct. 8, 3:04 p.m., at the Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco. Reporters can annals to appear Artificial Anaplasty 2006 and align interviews with presenters by logging on to www.plasticsurgery.org/news_room/Registration.cfm or by contacting ASPS Public Relations at (847) 228-9900 or in San Francisco, Oct. 7-11 at (415) 905-1730.
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