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Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program

BACKGROUND: The financial principles of a no-cost revision policy and their implications for revision rates are not well understood. OBJECTIVES: Therefore, the primary objective of this retrospective study is to report our no-cost revision rates and, secondarily, to survey the cosmetic revision poli...

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Autores principales: Moura, Steven P, Wirth, Peter J, Shaffrey, Ellen C, Attaluri, Pradeep K, Rao, Venkat K
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10111429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/asjof/ojad033
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author Moura, Steven P
Wirth, Peter J
Shaffrey, Ellen C
Attaluri, Pradeep K
Rao, Venkat K
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description BACKGROUND: The financial principles of a no-cost revision policy and their implications for revision rates are not well understood. OBJECTIVES: Therefore, the primary objective of this retrospective study is to report our no-cost revision rates and, secondarily, to survey the cosmetic revision policies of other cosmetic surgery practices and detail the financial principles underpinning no-cost revisions. METHODS: All aesthetic surgeries and no-cost revisions performed by the plastic surgeons, oculoplastic surgeons, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons at our academic outpatient cosmetic surgery center from January 1, 2016 to June 30, 2022 were identified using procedural codes. Data on the number of surgeries, number of revisions, operative minutes, and time intervals between initial and revision surgeries were collected. A survey was administered to assess the revision policies of similar cosmetic surgery practices. RESULTS: A total of 1491 aesthetic surgeries and minimally invasive procedures were included, and 125 revision procedures were performed (8.4%). Thigh lifts (3, 13.6%), rhinoplasties or septoplasties (25, 15.8%), and otoplasties (3, 27.3%) had the highest revision rates. Three practices (15%) offered cosmetic revisions at no cost, 9 (45%) did not apply a surgeon's fee, 5 (25%) evaluated fees on a case-by-case basis, 1 (5%) offered revisions with an insurance policy, and 2 (10%) cosmetic surgery practices did not offer revisions at a reduced rate. CONCLUSIONS: Despite offering revisions at no cost, our revision rates are reasonable for an academic cosmetic surgery practice. The revision policies offered to patients on the private market are varied, but most surveyed practices offer revisions at either a reduced rate or no cost. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 4: [Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-101114292023-04-19 Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program Moura, Steven P Wirth, Peter J Shaffrey, Ellen C Attaluri, Pradeep K Rao, Venkat K Aesthet Surg J Open Forum Original Article BACKGROUND: The financial principles of a no-cost revision policy and their implications for revision rates are not well understood. OBJECTIVES: Therefore, the primary objective of this retrospective study is to report our no-cost revision rates and, secondarily, to survey the cosmetic revision policies of other cosmetic surgery practices and detail the financial principles underpinning no-cost revisions. METHODS: All aesthetic surgeries and no-cost revisions performed by the plastic surgeons, oculoplastic surgeons, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons at our academic outpatient cosmetic surgery center from January 1, 2016 to June 30, 2022 were identified using procedural codes. Data on the number of surgeries, number of revisions, operative minutes, and time intervals between initial and revision surgeries were collected. A survey was administered to assess the revision policies of similar cosmetic surgery practices. RESULTS: A total of 1491 aesthetic surgeries and minimally invasive procedures were included, and 125 revision procedures were performed (8.4%). Thigh lifts (3, 13.6%), rhinoplasties or septoplasties (25, 15.8%), and otoplasties (3, 27.3%) had the highest revision rates. Three practices (15%) offered cosmetic revisions at no cost, 9 (45%) did not apply a surgeon's fee, 5 (25%) evaluated fees on a case-by-case basis, 1 (5%) offered revisions with an insurance policy, and 2 (10%) cosmetic surgery practices did not offer revisions at a reduced rate. CONCLUSIONS: Despite offering revisions at no cost, our revision rates are reasonable for an academic cosmetic surgery practice. The revision policies offered to patients on the private market are varied, but most surveyed practices offer revisions at either a reduced rate or no cost. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 4: [Image: see text] Oxford University Press 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10111429/ /pubmed/37082332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/asjof/ojad033 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Aesthetic Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program
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title_full Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program
title_fullStr Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program
title_full_unstemmed Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program
title_short Offering No-Cost Cosmetic Revisions: The Experience of an Academic Cosmetic Surgery Program
title_sort offering no-cost cosmetic revisions: the experience of an academic cosmetic surgery program
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10111429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/asjof/ojad033
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