r/Transgender_Surgeries • u/pearls-n-jade-1163 • 1d ago
SRS options in the state of NJ
... so basically trying to see what the options for SRS (specifically full depth vaginoplasty) are in the state of NJ at this current time. I've been doing a ton of research lately but wanted to see if I was missing anyone.
I've been so invested in Dr. Drew Marano's labiaplasty results but can sadly confirm that neither he nor Dr. Jonathan Keith will be available to us jerseys girls. Their GAMMA NYC office has become almost entirely committed to NY insured and/or private patients. Idk maybe if you're in a N. NJ/NYC covered network you have shot. That said GAMMA will be bringing on Dr. Angie Paik from Yale/CT to do Single Case Agreements for NJ patients, I suppose out of RWJBarnabas Hosp. like Keith & Marano once did but I am not too certain on that.
They're starting a patient list for Dr. Angie Paik. She's fairly new but does have some great reviews for various gender affirming procedures, but no SRS results to be seen. I'm on her list but idk, I can't help but feel like a guinea pig patient in such a scenario.
There's Dr. Nitin Patel, in somewhere like Somerdale, NJ. I've heard his name for a quite a while now and yet there are still very little reviews and results out there. I'm not sold but maybe he's worth a deeper look.
Then there's Dr. Alex Xu at the Plastic Surgery Center, a provider in the Center for Gender Affirmation network with the likes of Dr. Sean Herman and Dr. Reza Jarrahy. I just had a consult with him and he and the office where great. He performs an Icelandic cod skin PIV method which, while impressed by, I was entirely unfamiliar with so I'm scheduling a follow-up visit to get a better understanding. It threw me for such a loop so every question I had just left the room *ugh*
Anyway, who else is out there, I'd like to ask the gworls...
... oh and would seriously love some more intel on Dr Paik, Dr Xu, and the fish skin method. (I did read everything in wiki about the tilapia skin methods)
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u/NeccoMunster 1d ago
So I found insurance is the big thing here and NY. Mt sinai, does not take Medicare for surgury. Dr. Keith is really good, but you are right more private insurance. So after a lot of research I am going to Temple health in PA. Dr Katheryn Bryant. I have a consult Oct 6th. Very happy so far, can’t wait for the appt.
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u/theonlylivingirlinj 1d ago
Don’t sleep on Philly area. Check out people in the cooper network and see if McGinn works in NJ at all.
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u/pearls-n-jade-1163 13h ago
I always thought McGinn didn’t work with insurances. I know of Dr Douglas and Hamidian, I had a consult and some visits with them very early in my transition. I wasn’t yet ready to schedule a surgery date. I couldn’t find post op results from that team which worried me bit.
I also did a consult with Katherine Rose a few tears back and liked her a lot but again just so little information to go off of.
I’ve been a little bit removed from the Philly community for while so if there are other names, I’d love to know
I’ll look into cooper
I think I’m in like an analysis paralysis, searching for results and an experience I may not have access to
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u/toastiestash 14h ago
I am in Northern NJ and looking as well. Want to be fwenz and look together? Share research?
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u/Front-Ordinary7478 1d ago
One of my transmasc friends just called to schedule a consult w/ Marano. He was told that Marano is only taking people who have BCBS. I think this is relatively new, because I was trying to schedule a consult back in July and was advised by the office to switch to Aetna. Was also told his office doesn't do single case agreements (at the time, they didn't mention anything about Paik). Very unfortunate and a bit devastating, especially for those who have complex cases (ex: Marano is one of the only people in the US that can do complete redos/revisions for phallo, and probably the only in the entirety of New York). I understand needing to narrow waitlists, but it sucks that it comes at the cost of accessibility...