BuildMyBod CEO speaking at ASAPS meeting today!
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) is hosting their annual meeting from May 14th to May 19th in Montreal. Today, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, the CEO/Founder of BuildMyBod will be presenting his results showing the effectiveness of doctors providing their pricing online. These unprecedented statistics on the power of price transparency as a […]
BuildMyBod CEO speaking at ASPS Aesthetica Today!
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is hosting their annual Aesthetica meeting from April 30th to May 2nd in Las Vegas. Today, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, the CEO/Founder of BuildMyBod will be presenting his results showing the effectiveness of doctors providing their pricing online. These unprecedented statisics on the power of price transparency as […]
Health Insurance Companies Don’t Care About You/Me
I believe in capitalism and I believe that a company shouldn’t be ashamed of trying to make a profit. After all, staying in business is the name of the game. But when it comes to your healthcare, there is some unwritten rule or maybe it is written in the form of the Hippocratic Oath, that […]
Pharmacy Costs
I recently had a patient that needed some antibiotics after her surgery. She initially asked me to call her prescription in to Costco but Costco’s pharmacy is closed on Sunday. So I asked the patient to provide me with a 24-hour pharmacy near where she lives. Enter “Unnamed chain pharmacy”. She sent me a […]
Dogma is a bad word in medicine
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the medical establishment is rethinking the whole perioperative period – that time before surgery when you’re starving because you can’t eat or the time after surgery when you’re nauseated, in pain and overloaded with fluid. Medicine is changing, and in this case, for the better. […]
Cosmetic Surgery Prices
Recently released stats on cosmetic surgery in the US show various trends – nose jobs are down, Brazilian butt lifts are up! One bit of data that is often overlooked or incomplete is that of cosmetic surgery prices. Maybe back when we had no cost info available to us (price transparency has only recently become […]
Combination Plastic Surgery Procedures
Concerned about your neck and your abdomen? What about your breasts and your arms? With safer anesthesia and quicker operating room times, you can have combination plastic surgery procedures now! While there’s nothing wrong with splitting up individual plastic surgery procedures, it does cost more and can result in two recovery processes instead of […]
Obamacare to cost less than previously expected
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Obamacare will cost $506 billion instead of the originally projected $710 billion during the last 5 years of the CBO’s 10 year projection. There are several reasons for this including the fact that fewer people used the Federal exchanges which means that fewer people received subsidies than […]
Credit Reporting Agencies and Medical Bills
According to the Wall Street Journal, the big three credit reporting agencies (TransUnion, Equifax and Experian) will now treat unpaid medical bills differently than other unpaid bills. This is good for consumers. As anyone that’s been to the doctor or undergone a procedure in the hospital knows, it can take a while to get […]
2015 Pricing Report from BuildMyBod [infographic]
It’s that time of year again! BuildMyBod, your source for cosmetic surgery pricing information, as provided by physicians themselves, has released it’s pricing report for 2015. These are the most complete, accurate estimates you’ll find for out-of-pocket procedures of interest. The 2015 BuildMyBod Plastic Surgery Pricing Report [infographic] New to the pricing […]