Brachioplasty (arm lift) cost in Japan
Other country
Japan. Amounts in US dollars are that country's published price, converted. We are still collecting prices for brachioplasty (arm lift) here. The cited figures below are what has been published. A clinic list or a regional average is not a patient median.
Removes loose skin from the upper arm, scar running along the inner arm from armpit toward elbow. The lowest-complication procedure in post-weight-loss contouring.
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Published complication rate
11.9%
Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 109 brachioplasty patients: 11.9% overall
What has been published for Japan
Cited third-party figures for Japan. A benchmark is not a report of what someone paid, and these numbers are never averaged into a patient median.
Other country
Kobe University Hospital · Surgeon fee only · ¥968,660
US dollar equivalent at 157.6748 JPY per dollar, European Central Bank reference rate, 2026-10-02. The clinic did not publish a dollar price.
Excess-skin excision of both upper arms, 968,660 yen, tax included. Admission, anaesthesia, and pre-operative tests are separate lines on the same list. No price date is printed. The department says surgery is currently stopped and a revision of the list is planned from 2026.
United States figures for this operation
These rows were published for the United States. They stay labelled and separate from the Japan figures above.
| Where | Figure | What it includes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| United StatesBENCHMARK | $8,250 $6,000$10,500 | Surgeon fee only — not a final price 2024 average surgeon/physician fee range from the ASPS statistics report. Excludes anesthesia, facility, tests, and garments. The central figure is the midpoint of the published range, not a separate ASPS average. | American Society of Plastic Surgeons as of Oct 2026 |
| United StatesBENCHMARK | $10,331 $5,400$24,000 | Patient-reported average n = 89 89 reviews with a cost. Self-selected. Not a random sample of patients. | RealSelf patient reviews as of Jun 2024 |
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