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Bilateral Breast Reduction Surgery denials: what the review data shows
Independent reviewers have decided 15 published cases where an insurer denied Bilateral Breast Reduction Surgery — and they overturned the insurer 66.7% of the time. A denial for Bilateral Breast Reduction Surgery is a starting position, not a final answer.
Published decisions
15
2001–2026
Overturned
66.7%
10 denials reversed
How to use this in your appeal
These are outcomes from California’s external review program — an independent physician panel that binds the insurer. Every state has an equivalent process, and internal appeals succeed even more often. Cite the outcome record for Bilateral Breast Reduction Surgerywhen you appeal: reviewers routinely find that denials like yours didn’t hold up.
SOURCE: CALIFORNIA DMHC INDEPENDENT MEDICAL REVIEW OUTCOMES (CHHS OPEN DATA) · DERIVED AGGREGATE STATISTICS ONLY · METHODOLOGY
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