Do insurers regard Closure as a cosmetic procedure?
It depends on the physician’s diagnosis. Patients with venous disease in their saphenous veins often present with symptoms such as leg pain, leg fatigue, or swelling. There is a medical necessity to provide a therapeutic procedure for these patients and this is regularly recognized by most insurers. Treatment of leg veins in patients exhibiting only visible varicose veins with no other symptoms, and no saphenous vein incompetence is generally not reimbursed by insurance companies.
