Facelift: Lifting and Volumizing
Jowls got you down?! Or maybe it’s your neck. If you’re age 40 and up and you feel like your facial skin and/or neck is starting to sag, a facelift may be appropriate for you. I know what you’re thinking, “am I really considering a facelift?!” Of course a facelift isn’t for everyone but […]
Price Transparency is a Must: NY Times and New England Journal of Medicine Agree!
If this is NOT your first time visiting this blog, then you know that I sound like a broken record when it comes to the importance of price transparency in healthcare. And if this is your first time visiting the BuildMyBod blog, then welcome to the world of promoting price transparency in healthcare! […]
Learn About Plastic Surgery Pricing on BlogTalk Radio!
Tune in tomorrow Friday, October 4th at 11:30am for The NipTuck Coach Show on Blog Talk Radio. By following this link here, you can listen to The NipTuck Coach, Michele Garber, discuss plastic surgery pricing and costs with Dr. Kaplan. So go to this page and click “remind” at the top of the page so […]
Three Reasons to Love Price Transparency
Have you ever heard of RealPatientRatings? It’s a website that allows you to find a doctor in your area and read real patient reviews, not glowing reviews by friends of the doctor or negative reviews by the doctor’s competitor. They also provide advice to patients in regards to what to look for in a doctor […]
An Idea, a Little Money and the Brothers Mills
A couple of years ago while I was getting a haircut, I had this epiphany. I remember I was watching TV at the barber shop and SportsCenter was on. I even remember that my epiphany had no connection and was not brought on by anything I was watching on SportsCenter. As a plastic surgeon, […]
Botox, Xeomin and Dysport for Wrinkle Reduction
While you may not be familiar with the term botulinum toxin, you’ve definitely heard its more familiar names: Botox, Xeomin (pronounced Zee-o-men) and Dysport. These products can reduce the wrinkles in the face by being injected under the skin, into certain overactive facial muscles that cause the wrinkles. The most common areas to inject these […]
Top 5 MOST Expensive Plastic Surgery Procedures
As promised, here’s our next installment of our “Top 5” series. Before reading below about the Top 5 Most Expensive Plastic Surgery Procedures, you can look back in our blog about the Top 5 Least Expensive Procedures by clicking here. Here are the top 5 most expensive plastic surgery procedures as determined by […]
The Cost of Cosmetic Surgery…but more informative!
So I’m looking at a weekly email that I receive which highlights new articles in the media pertaining to plastic surgery. As a plastic surgeon, it’s natural for me to want to stay up to date on the latest developments. But as the founder of BuildMyBod, a website that provides total price estimates on cosmetic […]
What Hospital’s Charge vs What They Get Paid: A Health Care Blame Game
A recent article by the Washington Post found here, discusses a new era in price transparency at first glance. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Federal agency that pays hospitals and doctors for services rendered to patients, released the prices that hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures. The idea is to […]
Plastic Surgery Financing [Infographic]
A not-so-recent survey (2005) about the “wealth” of consumers undergoing cosmetic procedures such as BOTOX®Cosmetic or cosmetic surgery like breast augmentation, showed that they aren’t in actuality, very wealthy. So how do patients afford plastic surgery – with plastic surgery financing! The survey above came from a poll of 644 people, performed by the […]