FOX 5 Atlanta

Billing code change could make popular breast reconstruction surgery harder for cancer survivors to find

ATLANTA - Jamie Cooper of Scottdale, Georgia, has done the math and says she has been to at least 150 medical appointments since she was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer June 30, 2022. She ...
WHYY

Breast cancer survivors, surgeons worry new medical codes will limit access to DIEP reconstruction surgery

Diane Hager was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in 2018. After months of intense chemo, a mastectomy, and radiation, the Chester County resident looked forward to reconstruction ...
STAT

CMS must protect access to the ‘gold standard of breast reconstruction’

In 1983, I flew home from college to be with my mother as she woke up from a mastectomy. She opted out of breast reconstruction, choosing to “go flat” instead. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer ...
Frontiers

Expanding the Borders of Perforator Flap Application in Breast Surgery: Novel Techniques in Breast-Conserving, Aesthetic, and Salvage Procedures

Breast surgery increasingly employs various autologous tissue-based techniques. While free flaps (i.e. DIEP) remain the gold standard in post-mastectomy ...