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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A surgeon shared her frustration after her patient's operation was interrupted by UnitedHealthcare's demand to justify the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...