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Hi Everyone,
I have been diagnosed with breast cancer and am having a mastectomy of the left breast. I am worried about the right also as the mamogram had showed something there but the ultrasound ...
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Hi Tracey, If you contact your doctor (both the surgeon and plastic surgeon if you are having an immediate reconstruction) they will give you the item numbers and amount they will charge you. Ring your health fund and they will tell you the amount they will pay and the amount you will be out of pocket. Remember this will have to be repeated for the anaesthetist . Ask your health fund if there is an excess amount you need to pay to the private hospital too.