Garramone's surgical fee and hospital pathology fee combined is $5,600.  Liposuction comes with it. 

I don't think Dr Garramone is high priced. There is a local guy here and I think Dr Garramone is about the same price. (of course it involves traveling). I think east and west coast (I mean New England and California are higher, so there is something about where you go (in the US).
He may be kind of middle ranged, that's the idea I get. (Moot point, as I don't think that Dr G is such a good surgeon for this person.)

--Jay

Thanks guys. By the time I can afford it, I'll be in the west/midwest (Does Colorado count as the west or the midwest??) Instead of down in the south here in Georgia. If I can find a good surgeon with good results in Colorado then I'll probably go to them, but the more I see of Medalie's results, the more I feel like he's probably the best surgeon for me. I really really really don't want to buy into the "name brand" hype, but what I've seen of a few surgeons here who do gynecomastia surgeries here, I'm not that keen on it. Some of their results are great, and then you see some of them that you KNOW those guys had to have several revisions. I'm aiming to avoid having revisions, and get it all done in one go.

Perhaps there are surgeons in CO who get consistently good results (I haven't looked yet) and I'll end up going to them, but looking at various body types/procedures, I think peri/keyhole is the best option for me, and I like Medalies results quite a lot. I know you get what you pay for, (at least with tattoos, and I have quite a few of those) so I'm assuming a little bit of the price is that, and a little bit of the price is going to that name surgeon.

My therapist is still pushing Garramone, but I really do not want to do a DI, because I can definitely get away with not having that surgery, and from the info here, a peri/keyhole with him is highly unlikely.

Well not sure if Coloradans would like it if you called them "midwest". But mid-country obviously. I'd say "mountain west". I would let your therapist know what people know about Dr Garramone. Your therapist may know clients that went to him and were very happy. Yes, he does great DIs, but you don't want a keyhole/peri from him. (I would not want it from someone who did not like doing them.)

My observation is that sometimes "name" surgeons are not that much more (or any more) than no name. But usually you are going far out of your area, so the charges will be for lodging and air fare. See who you want to see. If there were possible insurance coverages that would be different. (Dr G was quite competitive with a local guy here. I think the local guy's surgery center is cheaper, hence his rates are lower.) I think it's more by area, so someone in NY or California is going to be more and esp the east coast.

--Jay

Quote from: Charliedogist on August 26, 2014, 03:35:38 AM
Thanks guys. By the time I can afford it, I'll be in the west/midwest (Does Colorado count as the west or the midwest??) Instead of down in the south here in Georgia. If I can find a good surgeon with good results in Colorado then I'll probably go to them, but the more I see of Medalie's results, the more I feel like he's probably the best surgeon for me. I really really really don't want to buy into the "name brand" hype, but what I've seen of a few surgeons here who do gynecomastia surgeries here, I'm not that keen on it. Some of their results are great, and then you see some of them that you KNOW those guys had to have several revisions. I'm aiming to avoid having revisions, and get it all done in one go.

Perhaps there are surgeons in CO who get consistently good results (I haven't looked yet) and I'll end up going to them, but looking at various body types/procedures, I think peri/keyhole is the best option for me, and I like Medalies results quite a lot. I know you get what you pay for, (at least with tattoos, and I have quite a few of those) so I'm assuming a little bit of the price is that, and a little bit of the price is going to that name surgeon.

My therapist is still pushing Garramone, but I really do not want to do a DI, because I can definitely get away with not having that surgery, and from the info here, a peri/keyhole with him is highly unlikely.

Ok, so this is completely unrelated but this whole "name brand surgeon", makes me smile.  I wasn't on this site and had never talked anyone that had top surgery, but except for one person, before I had mine.  I made my decision through transbucket.  I picked Garramone.  I had no idea he was a "name brand", he just had the most consistent great results of any of the others.  It is just kind of funny that it was after I came onto the site that I found out that everyone thought he was "the bomb".

I was just some random dude who looked at transbucket and as many FTM surgeon sites/pictures that I could find, and yet within this vacuum of no suggestions from others, I chose Garramone.  Point is, sometime there is a reason why somebody is a "name brand" surgeon.