After her mastectomy in April, Alantheia penalty wept at the loss of his chest. Your partner you said not to worry about the flat terrain on his chest, but I noticed he resented when he looked at what took off his shirt.
He was a Secretary kindly in the place where he was to get your prosthesis, an artificial breast to fill his clothes, who noticed his crying and told her that she could have her reconstructed breast, which covers the cost of health insurance. Ms. sentence said that his surgeon's cancer had not told him.
Now will require a State law signed on Sunday by Governor David Paterson to New York's hospitals and doctors to analyze options for breast reconstruction with patients before surgery for cancer, to give them information about insurance coverage and refer them to another hospital, if necessary, for reconstructive surgery.
The Act arose largely through the efforts of Dr. Evan Garfein, the plastic surgeon at the medical center of Montefiore in the Bronx, who bore the penalty Ms., which will convert to 48 in that next week, a new breast, which made it so happy that he wore a bikini last month for the first time in his life.
"Gave me back my life," Ms. penalty, who runs the H.I.V. Ministry to the Baptist Church of friendship in Brooklyn and lives in the Bronx, said on Wednesday. "It's like my mom." It is beautiful. It is perfect. "It's a perfect breast".
Dr. Garfein, specializes in reconstructive surgery after breast, head and neck cancer, said he had pushed the law once a friend of his, Dr. Caprice Christian Greenberg, wrote a document showing that poor, minority women were much less likely to receive the breast reconstruction after cancer than richer women.
Congress guarantees universal coverage for breast reconstruction after cancer surgery in 1998. But Dr. Garfein said that only between 30 and 40 per cent of women who had a mastectomy now received the reconstruction of the breast.
Dr. Garfein said that the number would be closer than 75 percent if more women were informed of their options. Ms. penalty, which is covered by Medicaid, had his surgery in the North General Hospital in Harlem, which is missing, but said that his doctor not had discussed never reconstruction of the breast with her.
One of the reasons for the low rate of reconstruction, said Dr. Garfein, may be the lack of surgeons outside of the major academic medical centers, and other can be financial. Medicaid pays about $11,000 to $15,000 to the hospital and $540 for the surgeon, according to Montefiore.
With the private insurance reimbursement ranges from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, and some patients may have the covered costs, while others may have to pay 30 per cent, according to Dr. Scott Breidbart, medical director of Empire BlueCross BlueShield.
Ms. punishment is still recovering from cancer, but with its new breast, said, "at the end of it, see some kind of Rainbow."
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