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There are a number of factors determining the cost of tummy liposuction and it varies from physician to physician,

Cost of Abdominal (“tummy”) Liposocution/Lipoplasty

It usually costs between $2,000 and $8,000 for a single procedure.

Most often it's somewhere in between these costs, with a typical average being around $5,000.

About $500-$1000 of the liposuction cost is an anesthesia fee.

Roughly $600-$1,200 represents the facility fee (i.e. strictly for treatment at the hospital, clinic, or office where you are getting the lipo), and the remainder is what goes to the surgeon performing the procedure.

There is a general correspondence between the size of a body part and the cost for lipo, so with the stomach being a fairly large area it tends to be priced higher on the scale than some other lipo procedures.

Specific costs applying to tummy liposuction

Specific tummy liposuction costs mainly hinge, as noted above, on the size of the area to treated.

For instance, lipo for the upper or lower abdomen alone are cheaper than for the entire abdomen.

In fact, full abdominal liposuction is one of the most expensive liposuction procedure/body areas available.

This shows that surgeons are mainly being paid according to time and volume of fatty tissue suctioned out, rather than, say, by the relative difficulty of a certain procedure.

The general volume approach to pricing holds true as further body areas are added, though “volume discounts” are often offered.

Risks of cheap tummy liposuction

Shopping for tummy liposuction is probably not the situation in which to simply look for the cheapest deal.

Though the procedure has become sophisticated and streamlined, and is performed by a large number of medical professionals, that does not mean that all practitioners are equal.

Check a plastic surgeon’s credentials thoroughly and get references before deciding to go to him or her for a liposuction procedure.

This does not mean that a physician that offers less expensive services should be ruled out automatically.

It simply means that price alone should never be the deciding factor.

The risks of an incompetent liposuction surgeon damaging the health or appearance of your stomach far outweigh any financial savings that may be achieved.

For a full list of questions you should be sure to ask a potential liposuction doctor, check our find a surgeon page here or ask our tummy tuck experts directly via the form below.

Financing alternatives

Unfortunately, most liposuction procedures are not covered by medical insurance.

Thus, unless a liposuction patient has cash in hand, financing of some type is often necessary.

Frequently the surgeons performing the procedures will offer payment plans of various sorts to fit the budgets of their clients.

On top of this there are a number of companies that specialize in giving loans for cosmetic surgery or other medical costs.

Some examples include Credit Care and Capital One Healthcare Finance.

Average interest rate and pay period

The interest rates on these loans are in the range of 6% to 10%.

The pay period is frequently 1 year at the minimum and can often be as much as 5 years at a maximum.

These terms generally make the loans fairly cheap and affordable to the average liposuction client.

Cheaper Tummy Tuck Options

There are a number of foreign countries in which liposuction is cheap - or at least much cheaper than in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

Countries such as Costa Rica and Thailand are also exotic travel destinations, and liposuction clients often combine their liposuction with a vacation, hoping to save money overall.

However the same vigilance as to the experience and credentials of the surgeon and the medical facility must be exercised.

Perhaps more even, because you are dealing with foreign principalities that are unfamiliar to you in your day to day experience.

Tummy liposuction can help cosmetically shape your abdominal area, but remember that liposuction is also an option best used if other options such as diet and exercise don’t produce the desired results or are inconvenient or impractical for some reason.

It can be a safe and cost effective weight reduction option, but needs to be understood and implemented in the right way.

More information

For a more general break-down of costs involved with liposuction click here.

For more general information on tummy tuck liposuction click here.