Hi there
i am in a private health fund but still had quite serious out of pocket expenses for my left mastectomy( with insertion of tissue expander in anticipation of reconstruction) and right breast reduction.I was at St Vincent’s Private for 6 nights and under the care of both a breast cancer surgeon and a plastic surgeon.
My care was top class and I love all my Doctors.
Both my surgeons also operate in St Vincent’s public but if you are a patient there you may not get them and there may be delays for the reconstruction part.
So I don’t know if that helps or not , I do know a couple of people who had double mastectomies in the public system here in Sydney and were also very happy.
The other thing is that I started out thinking I was having a lumpectomy but the mri showed the size of the tumour such that a mastectomy was recommended so sometimes things change rather quickly.
