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In this clip we will talk about the cost of liposuction. The cost of liposuction of course
will vary from doctor to doctor and from geographic area to geographic area. The factors will
involve whether the surgery is performed in a doctor’s office, in a surgery center,
or in a hospital which is something of course that you will need to determine for your own
comfort before the surgery and then whether the fee is the surgeon's only or whether there
is an anesthesia provider fee and a facility fee. And sometimes they are all put together,
sometimes they are separate. Another determination will be how many areas of the body have to
be liposuctioned. It is generally not charged by the amount of fat removed, but clearly
some areas are smaller than others. One small area would be the chin and neck area or the
arms for example. A large area would be when the entire hips, thighs, and trunk area are
performed at the same time and that would be taking more hours and more time by the
surgeon and so the cost would be appropriately higher. The range would be somewhere in the
range of about twenty-five hundred to three thousand dollars for small area liposuction
and in upwards of ten thousand or more for very large areas of liposuction including
anesthesia and facility fees depending on what part of the country.