A short excerpt from a YouTube video (uploaded July 3, 2025) featuring Dr. Robert Whitfield. The clip begins with a patient/participant asking about the cost of a breast implant explant procedure and whether insurance will cover it; the video aims to explain costs and insurance considerations for explantation.
What does something like this cost?
Yeah.
And does insurance cover it or.
Well, that's interesting. I got asked this earlier today. In fact, in 2019, I was finishing up my. My cancer career. I wasn't doing any more reconstructions, and I was still seeing cancer patients that I had operated on. And we ended up getting kind of reprimanded by an insurance company because they said, oh, you can't do these surgeries and request that the insurance company reimburse somebody for an explant that was done cosmetically because you have an insurance contract. And I wasn't using or adding new insurance patients or anything like that. I had stopped. So we had to terminate all of our insurance contracts, and we let patients have all of their notes, all of their records, and file their own claims.
