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Dr Brown said genital numbness wouldn’t be an issue. Belinda at his office has been very nice and so has he. And it won’t be that expensive according to my estimates even with the flight etc (cross fingers).
Like I said I contacted shouldice and they said genital numbness wasn’t a side effect at their facility. When I asked Dr. Reinhorn about this he said that shouldice will always do the best job.
Here are some of my notes from my visit with Dr Reinhorn. It’s basically what I wrote in previous posts.
With shouldice technique have to use a muscle to close things up. The genital branch of the genital femoral nerve is affected. Numbness will probably involve part of labia less likely your clitoris because of the nerve endings. He has yet to have a patient complain of clitoral numbness but labia numbness occurs all the time. In 2016 went to toronto to learn shouldice. He has done it for 4 years. He uses a nylon suture instead of stainless steel. Have to cut own stainless steel and sterilize it which he isn’t prepared to do. Shouldice feels a stainless steel suture slides more. But he has used this nylon stitch for 25 years and is confident it works well.
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Hi all sorry I have not be on for a while. I got an email back from dr reinhorn which I can share if desired but it still didn’t clarify things. I called and told them I wanted more clarification and I received an email about a week later saying that he went on vacation out of country and wasn’t able to respond before he left. Honestly I have decided to see dr brown in California. I am hoping that’s a good choice. He has been very responsive and patient with me and answered my questions.
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I called and I found out the insurance would be billed 3975.00 for the surgery center and for an hour anesthesia it would be 1186.16 and for two hours it would be 1482.70 (this is what insurance will be billed). Then my portion for the doctor’s fee would be $500. So I was able to figure it out.
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I wanted to add too that Dr Reinhorn does surgery at the newton wellesley hospital but he also does it as a surgery center in waltham which has a good reputation. The surgery center in waltham only charges $5000 for the whole surgery so if you have insurance the cost is truly minimal compared to the hospital.
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I was also wondering how i could find out how much the surgery is going to be with my insurance. The office has been fairly vague about it. I am going to call back and see if I can get a number for their billing office. I am an insurance expert so I understand how it all works but I will owe 20% of what they bill insurance.
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@Local Civilian – thank you. That is exactly my point.
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Hi Dog,
I did read a lot of your posts already. I was hoping to hear from a variety of people. -
What technique did he use on you ?
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How did you hear about him. Why did you choose him ?
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Hi, I called Dr Towfigh and she is out of network. I called Dr brown as well and was told to submit my insurance card to them on their site but their site isnt letting me send a message at all.