Mommy makeover cost: three operations, one session, one bill

A mommy makeover is not a procedure code but a combination; choose its parts and see the room and anesthesia lines shrink against separate operations.

Operating room

One session, room and anesthesia at national rates

$5,911

$2,558 less than 3 separate operations, on the operating room and anesthesia lines.

Anesthesia, one session of 414 minutes$668
Operating room, surgery center$5,243
Saved on the operating room$2,394
Saved on anesthesia base units$164

Medicare pays the highest-rated code in full and the others at half, or packages them into one comprehensive hospital payment. Surgeons price combined work themselves; their fees are not included here.

How this is computed

Compiled by Radif Partners · Where each line comes from · CMS 2026 rate files · not a quote

The operating room and the anesthesia of a mommy makeover made of a tummy tuck, a breast lift and liposuction of the flanks come to a benchmark of $5,911 in one session at national rates in 2026, against $8,469 for the same three operations done separately. The saving sits in those two lines. In a surgery center, Medicare pays the highest rated code in full and the others at half, so the room costs $5,243 instead of $7,637; and anesthesia is billed once, with one set of base units, for 414 minutes. The surgeon's fee is the third line, and the one no public file prices: each practice sets it, often below the sum of its separate fees for a combined session, so the calculator leaves it to your own quote rather than guessing it.

No code for the combination

The name is a marketing term. On a claim or an itemized quote, a mommy makeover appears as its parts: CPT 15830 for the tummy tuck, 19316 for a breast lift or 19325 for implants, 15877 for liposuction of the trunk. The room and anesthesia lines follow precise public rules for combined sessions, which is what makes them worth computing; the surgeon's fee follows no public rule at all, and only the practice can state it.

Tummy tuck, breast lift and trunk liposuction; Medicare 2026 national rates; surgeon not included.
LineOne sessionThree separate operations
Anesthesia$668$832
Room, surgery center$5,243$7,637
Room and anesthesia$5,911$8,469

Lift or implants

Replacing the breast lift with implants changes the room and anesthesia benchmark to $6,152: the room is higher because the implant code carries the highest surgery center rate of the three and is paid in full. Some patients have both a lift and implants, which adds a fourth code; the calculator above takes three procedures, and the breast lift page prices the lift with implants.

Surgery center or hospital

In a hospital outpatient department the tummy tuck and the breast lift are both comprehensive codes, so the hospital is paid the higher of them once and the other operations are packaged: the hospital room for the three comes to $6,784. Where a combined session takes place is decided by the surgeon and the anesthesia team, for reasons of safety as much as price, so the hospital line is worth knowing even when a surgery center is expected.

Your combination

One session, room and anesthesia at national rates

$6,152

Anesthesia, one session of 354 minutes$586
Operating room, surgery center$5,566
Saved on the operating room$2,394
Saved on anesthesia base units$164
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The whole cost, recovery included

In Los Angeles the room and anesthesia of the three operations come to $6,496. The surgeon sets the time off after a combined session; as an example, fifteen unpaid working days at the US median pay come to $3,753, a figure the recovery page lets you replace with your own. Spread over 24 months at the Federal Reserve's average personal loan rate of 11.90 %, the room and anesthesia alone would cost $278 a month, before the surgeon's fee.

What readers ask about this bill

How much does a mommy makeover cost in 2026?

For a tummy tuck, breast lift and liposuction in one session, the room and anesthesia come to a benchmark of $5,911 at national rates: $668 for anesthesia and $5,243 for a surgery center room with Medicare's combined-session rules. The surgeon's fee comes on top, from the practice's own quote.

Is a mommy makeover cheaper than separate surgeries?

On the room and anesthesia lines, yes: about $2,558 less at the rates used here, because the second and third codes are paid at half rate and anesthesia is billed once. Whether the surgeon also lowers the fee depends on the surgeon. One longer operation and one recovery also replace three.

What procedures are in a mommy makeover?

There is no fixed definition. Most combine a tummy tuck with breast surgery, a lift, implants or both, and often liposuction of the flanks. Some add other areas. Each part is billed under its own code, so asking the practice for the list of codes is the surest way to compare two quotes for a mommy makeover.

Next line to check

Tummy tuck cost

Anesthesia and operating room of a full abdominoplasty for your metro area, plus your surgeon quote.

Breast lift cost

Mastopexy without implants: a longer operation than an augmentation, a lower room, and implants as an option.

Combined procedures

What a second or third procedure in the same session saves on the room and the anesthesia.

Paying over time

Personal loan, credit card or deferred-interest medical card: what spreading the bill really costs.

Rate files and documents behind this page

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These figures are benchmarks: public Medicare rates for the operating room and anesthesia of the same codes; the surgeon's fee, which no public file publishes, counts only from your own quote. A practice sets its own prices, often above Medicare rates, and only a surgeon who has examined you can say what you need. The site describes bills, never whether a procedure suits you, and earns nothing from any surgeon, clinic, drug maker or lender.

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