The Health Care Debate and Vasectomy Reversal

I don’t care where you come down on the recent health care debate in Washington. There are certainly arguments for and against universal health care.

But I think there is one thing we can all agree on: there is a lot of waste in the current system.

And some of that waste occurs in the larger hospitals.

Large facilities have high overhead. It’s just a fact. There is greater cost associated with care in a large facility than with care you receive in a small clinic or private office.

Some procedures require the equipment and services that can only be found in large hospitals.

But vasectomy reversal, within 9 years of the vasectomy, is not one of those procedures. There is no advanced or unwieldy equipment that is needed for this procedure. In fact, general anesthesia is not required.

So, part of the additional fee you end up paying for the more complicated and involved “bypass” reversals that some doctors perform, is directly due the facility in which they are performed.

But my reversals are done in a small private office using only what is required to get the job done.

+ no general anesthesia
+ no facility charge
+ personally answer calls and email thus saving labor costs
+ my office is comfortable but not large thus saving fixed costs
+ high powered scheduling and patient relation software also decreases labor costs

You can see that none of these efficiencies have any impact on surgical quality, so the costs are lower and the quality is still excellent.

Also, it’s all I do here. So, your fee does not have to help pay for a billion other services provided like at a major hospital. You pay for what you get. Your vasectomy reversal. Period.