A surgeon in Austin, Texas, was in the operating room with a patient when a call came in from the patient’s insurance ...

I can’t believe this is happening." A Texas surgeon was performing surgery when she received an unexpected call from the ...

DIEP flap surgery is an option for patients who have had a mastectomy, in which one or both breasts are removed because of breast cancer or to prevent breast cancer. The primary benefit of a DIEP flap ...

Elisabeth Potter, a doctor based in Austin, Texas, created a video on Instagram detailing her experience treating a cancer ...

Knowing the way health insurers operate, that's probably true — and they'd probably slap an extra fee on the bill for having ...

Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas, recently shared a shocking story about an insurance company ...

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas is the only hospital in the state offering this type of procedure, called DIEP flap surgery ...

This requires careful surgery by a surgeon who does microsurgery. Here are some of the different types of tissue flap surgery, named for the area of the body where the tissue is taken. DIEP (deep ...

Without insurance, the DIEP flap surgery costs anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000. A 2020 study from ASPS found that between 2012 and 2017, 28 percent of patients were denied coverage for their ...

Dr. Taylor Theunissen performs autologous breast reconstruction procedures in Baton Rouge, offering cancer survivors natural tissue-based options for post-mastectomy reconstruction with improved ...

A month after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked a national conversation about the abusive practices of for-profit health insurers, a doctor in Austin, Texas has shared a ...

Photo courtesy of Marny Barnes. Carlson underwent a skin-sparing mastectomy followed by the Dual Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) flap surgery, which uses tissue from the patient’s ...