About Mastakov Surgery
Why Choose Dr Mastakov For Your Sleeve Gastrectomy (or Gastric Sleeve)?
Dr Mastakov is passionate about long-term health outcomes for his patients. For this reason, pre-operative surgery, Dr Mastakov consults with patients to determine if they’re ready to make long-term lifestyle changes and sustain them. For Dr Mastakov it’s all about whether patients are ready to work together. This is because he believes his role is not simply a surgeon, but rather as a healthcare professional.
Post operation, for 24 months our clinic consults with our patients to check in with their progress and assist with any questions or concerns. Over the first 12 months following surgery, all scheduled post-operative reviews that relates to the obesity surgery are bulk billed (no out-of-pocket costs).
Did you know that rebates are available?
As a Bariatric and Weight-Loss Surgeon, one of the most common questions we receive is how much will the Sleeve Gastrectomy cost?
While we cannot give a definitive answer, a key difference in the way Dr Mastakov runs his clinic is to refund as much of the rebate to his patients. This reduces patients’ out-of-pocket expenses.
What rebates are available?
We recommend patients to consider investing in private health cover which covers bariatric surgery and wait the 12 month qualifying period, if required.
Alternatively, for previous patients that were eligible to access their superannuation earlier on ‘compassionate grounds’, we have assisted their application to finance the treatment by providing the required documentation.
What is included?
Included in the surgery package is:
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Same day Gastroscopy
- Up to a 4-night stay at the Private Hospital
- 7 Days a week extended hours Post-operative phone service support – when patients speak to a medical professional any time.
- Such additional procedure as Hiatus Hernia repair (if found and repaired at the time of your surgery).
What is a Hiatus Hernia and why is it included?
If it is needed, the impact and ease to complete this at the time of the sleeve gastrectomy, ultimately saves the patient time, money and the emotional impact of multiple surgeries.
Why do we do this differently?
Not all clinics are run this way and our processes and patient support are designed to maximise the likelihood patients will achieve long-term lifestyle goals.
For Dr Mastakov it’s about patient progress. For this reason, preoperative consultations are about determining if we can work together to achieve a healthy lifestyle as not all patients are ready to make the changes necessary to sustain the benefits of the gastrectomy sleeve. From our experience, we believe this gives us the greatest chance to work with patients to monitor and encourage their health and weight-loss progression.
Contact us today to see if we can work together.
About Dr Mastakov
Dr Mikhail Mastakov is a General Surgeon currently practicing at Mater Private Hospital Redland, Sunnybank Private Hospital and St Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay.
Dr Mastakov is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and a member of the General Surgeons Australia (GSA) and Australian & New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS) and holds accreditation for Colonoscopy from the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA). Dr Mastakov has also completed a preceptorship in Bariatric (Obesity) surgery with leading Australian bariatric surgeons practicing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
Dr Mastakov completed his fellowship in Australia and has 24 years of experience in performing general surgeries, procedures and surgical care for both public and private patients including 15 years of doing surgeries in Queensland hospitals such as Princess Alexandra Hospital, QEII Jubilee Hospital, Logan Hospital, Redland Hospital, Townsville Teaching Hospital, Rockhampton and Nambour Base Hospitals.
The areas of our practice specialisation include Hernia and Bariatric Surgery (Weight Loss Surgery).
Our general surgery practice performs numerous elective and emergency surgeries and surgical procedures. The list of most commonly performed surgeries include Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (Gastric Sleeve), laparoscopic/open repair of femoral, inguinal, ventral, umbilical, incisional or recurrent hernia, HAL (Haemorrhoidal Artery Ligation – treatment of symptomatic haemorrhoids), laparoscopic cholecystectomy and appendectomy, surgery for benign or malignant breast conditions, and large bowel surgeries such as right and left hemicolectomies (bowel resection) for colon cancer.
Dr Mastakov has published in scientific magazines such as “Gene Therapy”, “Molecular Therapy” and “Journal of Virology”, and also presented at Annual Scientific Meetings of Neuroscience in the USA.
In 1999 he was awarded with Thomas Jeffersons University, Philadelphia, USA prize for contribution in Gene Therapy for ALS and for Canavan Disease.
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