Short YouTube segment (creator/speaker: Robert Whitfield MD) giving practical advice on how patients can pay for out-of-pocket explant surgery. Recommends using medical financing companies (specifically Patient Fire and Alli) and suggests consulting tax strategists about potential medical-expense tax deductions or reimbursement possibilities; notes that employer/self-administered plans vary.
I had people who had self administered plans be able to get reimbursement and those were rare because most plans are not self administered, they're through large companies. So that takes us to how is someone going to manage to prepare for and get this done for themselves when it's an out of pocket procedure? And obviously there's utilizing financing, which is not uncommon. We use Patient Fire routinely. We use Alli routinely for financing. These are companies that work with our patients to provide very good options for financing. You can work with your tax strategist and advisors to see if any of this can be written off of your taxes as medical expenses.
