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Your First Appointment Costs

Anyone can make an appointment to see Dr Niazi.

With a valid specialist referral, you will receive a Medicare rebate (out of pocket fee reduction). A valid referral has to be current and come from a general practitioner or another specialist.

Without a valid referral, you will not obtain your Medicare rebate and be required to pay the full consulting fee.

You can make an appointment and then arrange for your general practitioner to fax through a referral prior to your appointment date.

One Fixed Price

Dr Niazi believes in complete cost transparency to eliminate doubt relating to the questions around how much will your weight loss surgery cost.

So you are clear about the total cost of your weight loss program, our “One Fixed Price” quotation has absolutely no hidden extra costs and includes all the following elements:

Your surgeon, assistant surgeon, and your anaesthetist’s fee,
All pre-surgery appointments,
Full cost of all surgeon, hospital device and anaesthetist fees
Our comprehensive Care Program
All necessary postoperative dietary, medical and psychological appointments.
Comprehensive support program delivered by experts

Our highly experienced team is optimised to help you improve your BMI and reach your goal weight. Click to view our Care Plan click details.

For Private Health Insurance patients, generally, the only other cost under normal circumstances would be your health fund excess.

For patients without private health insurance (non-Insured patients), there are a number of affordable, options. Click to the Non Insured page.

What is Covered in the Fee Plan?

Each surgical program is based on a fixed fee plan. These fee plans covers the gap between what your insurance covers and our weight loss program fee.

This Fee Plan includes:

Any Preoperative consultations with Dr Niazi
All other pre-operative appointments including meetings with

consultant nurse
dietitian
psychologist

Professional fees

Surgeons
Surgical assistants
Other specialists including anaesthetist

Hospital charges

for bed stay
for operating theatre session
For equipment used bands, implants, staples
Professional fees charged by the surgeon, anaesthetist and surgeon assistants

Lifelong follow up

with Dr Niazi
Any postoperative medical appointments are “bulk billed”.
Any additional surgery relating to your weight loss procedure that may be required in the future will incur no out of pocket fes.

All post-operative

support meetings with consultant nurse
dietitian appointments
psychologist or counsellor appointment (within first 3 months of surgery)
exercise physiologist (after surgery)

Some patients with complex medical conditions may also require an appointment with:

A weight management physician (such as an endocrinologist).
A specialist physician – particularly those with other serious health issues.

Funding Options for Weight Loss Surgery

There are a number of methods for funding weight loss surgery regardless of having private health insurance or not. The options available may vary depending on a patient’s financial circumstances and insurance status.

The funding options may include:

Self-funding any uninsured fee gap
Payment plans to spread payment
Flexible finance loans to cover all costs
Accessing a patient’s superannuation to fund the procedure

We are happy to help you understand these options if required.

What is Private Health Insurance Gap?

Understanding Medicare Gap Fees for Weight loss surgery is important.

Because weight loss surgery is considered by the health department to be an important health intervention and as such has associated item numbers that attract a Medicare rebate.

This means, if you have private insurance, typically most of the costs associated with surgery will be covered by your insurance company and Medicare.

As private health insurance policies differ some policies may:

not cover weight loss surgery.
include a 12 month waiting period, especially if you have recently joined a health fund.

Gap Fees

Patients with an appropriate level of private health insurance cover will find most hospital and equipment charges will incur a “no gap” fee.

The out of pocket expenses associated with the program (or gap fees) for insured patients relate mostly to professional and clinic fees charged by the surgeon, anaesthetist and their assistants.

Occasionally, in your operation, there may be certain equipment used which is “non-rebatable,” such as the lap band device.

Having paid this one off fee, you will not receive other invoices related to your operation from our staff or doctors.

What does Your Private Health Insurance Cover?

To confirm what your Private Health Insurance policy covers simply contact your health fund and quote the following “item numbers”:

Gastric Bypass Fee Plan - Item No: 31572

The final gastric bypass surgery cost, including hospital fees and the price of medications. Dr Niazi will be able to provide a more detailed quote after consultation.

Patients can choose from a variety of payment options available depending on their financial circumstances and your private health insurance status:

For patients with private insurance costs range from $4,000 - $6,000 or $4,250, $4,950
Surgeon & Assistant out of pocket - $4500* plus Anaesthetist (rebate after surgery) - $1600 TOTAL COST TO PATIENT: - $6100
For patients without private insurance the $16,000 - 18,000 or $24,000 - $26,000.

Medicare rebates are available for this procedure and our surgery offers payment plans for patients.

Fee Plans

Revision Surgery Fee Plan - Item No.: 31584

Revision weight loss surgery (patients who have had a previous weight loss procedure) is priced differently to primary (first time) surgery.

With revision weight loss surgery each patient and procedure is different and can be:

Typically more complex due to the degree of tissue manipulation and scarring
Requires greater skill, and
Involves longer operative time.

therefore it can be difficult to give general information under these circumstances.

For patients who have had their

original procedure with Dr Niazi, there is no out-of-pocket expense from the surgeon,
regardless of where the first surgery was performed there is no out-of-pocket expense from the surgeon if you are covered by your private health fund,
surgery elsewhere, contact our rooms to discuss an estimated quote for revision surgery.

About Revision Surgery

Our clinic has substantial experience in many forms of Revision Bariatric surgery.

Types of Revision Weight Loss Surgery

We regularly perform revisional surgery including

Removal of lap bands surgery
Converting Band to sleeve gastrectomy surgery
Converting Band to gastric bypass surgery
Re-sleeving surgery
Converting Sleeve-to-bypass surgery
Converting sleeve or bypass after previous stomach stapling.

Generally, we advise waiting three months between removal of lap band before undertaking further surgery such as sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass.

Generally, removal of lap bands will mean one overnight stay in hospital if all goes well this procedure can be done as a day case procedure.