Apr 07
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Insurance Company Forced to Pay for Boy’s Breast Reduction
I say this is a huge victory for this boy and his family. Breast reductions that are considered medically necessary that cause back pain and other potential health problems are covered for most women under most good insurance policies for health. Now, I am also updating this post (2010) because there is a new male breast reduction pill that can help you naturally reduce your male breasts without surgery.
I personally know two women who have had breast reduction surgeries and had the paid for or reimbursed by their insurance companies, so it really doesn’t seem fair that an insurance company would not do the same for a boy who suffered from abnormal breast enlargement, called gynecomastia, in men.
The seventeen year old boy suffered from extremely enlarged breasts throughout much of his adolescence, when gynecomastia, or male breast enlargement, typically occurs.
Male breast enlargement causes much embarrassment for the men who do not want to have feminine breasts, and there is surgery available for it.
The insurance company refused initially to pay for the boy’s surgery because it was deemed “medically unnecessary” and “cosmetic”. The trauma to the boy’s life was proven to be so compelling that a court ruled the insurance company must reimburse the boy’s father for the male breast reduction surgery.
This could be a case that is referred to in other similar cases that come up regarding male breast enlargement, and hopefully it can help to make insurers pay for this many times embarrassing, life-altering physical condition in men and younger boys.
