Skeptical_One wrote:
SolLhilll wrote:
Bahamut0 wrote: It is £195 per ml, not a bargain by any means but not terrible also all cards accepted.
By the way I didn’t overdo it I was afraid of my Dick looking unnatural. I have been trying the moulding thing and swelling has gone down too, I’m quite entertained with the the enhanced look but I don’t know if I’ll do it again in 3 years
That’s less than half the price of the cheapest I’ve seen in the US. I wonder why there’s such a price discrepancy. At that price point I wonder if it’d be cheaper to just fly to the UK to get it done.
Not to drag the topic off-course but International rates for some fillers are absolutely less expensive, and much of it is out of the control of the buyer (i.e. Clinic). I won't disclose the name of one Clinic, but they told me that if it were legal to acquire Canadian Hyaluronic Acid (HA), that it would be SO MUCH cheaper. However they are constrained by the FDA, and presumably other regulations in place.
Skeptical_One wrote:
SolLhilll wrote:
Bahamut0 wrote: It is £195 per ml, not a bargain by any means but not terrible also all cards accepted.
By the way I didn’t overdo it I was afraid of my Dick looking unnatural. I have been trying the moulding thing and swelling has gone down too, I’m quite entertained with the the enhanced look but I don’t know if I’ll do it again in 3 years
That’s less than half the price of the cheapest I’ve seen in the US. I wonder why there’s such a price discrepancy. At that price point I wonder if it’d be cheaper to just fly to the UK to get it done.
Not to drag the topic off-course but International rates for some fillers are absolutely less expensive, and much of it is out of the control of the buyer (i.e. Clinic). I won't disclose the name of one Clinic, but they told me that if it were legal to acquire Canadian Hyaluronic Acid (HA), that it would be SO MUCH cheaper. However they are constrained by the FDA, and presumably other regulations in place.
There are some more reasons why this procedure is so expensive in the US compared to the UK.
- Medical liability insurance / professional negligence insurance is much higher in the USA than the UK.
I don't know why doctors pay so much more for insurance in USA than in the UK. Some plausible theories: perhaps the US is a more litigious country, maybe the UK public health system steps in and mops up a number of private issues (even though it shouldn't).
I had a doctor in the US estimate that from every procedure he performs around $500 is the cost of insurance.
- Sales and other taxes, taxes on raw filler. As I understand it the taxes are higher in the US. There are a number of quirks of the UK tax system which mean procedures that provide a non-physical improvement to the wellbeing of the patient (improve confidence) are exempt from some value added taxes.
- Shared premises. In the UK a doctor or clinic usually resides within an existing private hospital, so that costs are not as high. We don't have huge medical centers.
- Raw filler cost is much lower. Aside from not having taxes a lot of filler is manufactured in Europe making distribution cheaper. Also, within the EU there are vast discrepancies in terms of national income in member states and filler manufacturers end up selling Juvederm Voluma for exmple at around 1/2 the price in Poland as in the UK. This creates a parallel import market which increases competition and limits the price that filler manufacturers can charge.
For example: If Juvederm Voluma was £50 per ml in Warsaw, but £200 per ml in London then filler would simply be imported from Poland to UK. As a result the manufacturer can only charge double at most.
- Yes it is cheaper to get on the plane and fly to London even when including 2 or 3 nights in a fairly nice hotel. That said.... what if you have issues you need to address, then you need to buy another flight to the UK and you lose whatever money you saved.
There is probably a good case for patients wanting a fairly large amount of
HA, or for patients wanting
Ellanse, to come to the UK from USA.
That said, there are
Androfill Clinics in the USA now in San Francisco, Sacramento (Dr Joel
Pash and Dr Jack
Friedlander) and New Jersey (Dr Roel Galope). An '
Androfill Clinic' means the doctor has been trained by
Androfill (either in person or by an extensive online training program) and have all methods and protocols. We have vetted them to ensure they are using the right filler (although we cannot monitor this easily from the UK) and have no obvious medical violations or censures.