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Does Australia’s national health insurance cover plastic surgery for facial scars resulting from an accident?
Question: Does Australia’s national health insurance cover plastic surgery for facial scars resulting from an accident?
Facial scars incurred during a bicycle accident? (Or any type of accident, for that matter.)
Here in the US, most elective surgery is not covered, even if it is the result of an accident.
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Best answer:
Answer by Bella B
Reconstructive surgery – eg breast reconstruction after creast cancer, facial surgery after accident should do.
Elective breast job, no.
Medicare doesn’t cover surgery for solely cosmetic reasons so you would need to have a referral from a psychiatrist or other medical practitioner to the effect that it was required for some other reason. That wouldn’t be hard to do for scars resulting from an accident.