Dr. Curtis Crane
One of the World's Best Trained and Most Experienced Gender Surgeons
Dr. Curtis Crane, MD is a board-certified plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas who has deep experience with the full spectrum of male-to-female Gender Reassignment Surgery procedures. Dr. Crane's training is unmatched: he's one of only a few surgeons in the world who is trained as both a plastic surgeon and urologist and has also completed fellowships in reconstructive urology and gender reassignment surgery. In total, he has more than 10 years of post-medical school surgical training in urology, reconstructive urology, and plastic surgery.
Dr. Crane started performing gender surgery in 2005, working extensively with Dr. Djordjevic in Serbia, Dr. Preecha in Thailand, and Dr. Monstrey in Belgium.
He opened his San Francisco gender surgery practice in 2012 and expanded to Austin, Texas in 2016. Dr. Crane and his team of surgeons at the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery perform approximately 130 Vaginoplasty surgeries every year.
Dr. Crane is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH.)
Dr. Crane performs the following Gender Affirming Surgery procedures:
Feminizing Genital Surgery: Choose from Orchiectomy (testicle removal), Vulvoplasty (creation of a vulva without a vaginal canal), Vaginoplasty (penile inversion method).
Facial Feminization Surgery (FFS):
- Forehead Contouring
- Cheek Augmentation
- Rhinoplasty
- Lip Augmentation
- Jaw Reduction/Contouring
- Chin Surgery
- Tracheal Shave (Thyroid Cartilage Reduction)
Breast Augmentation: With silicone or saline breast implants.
Dr. Crane operates at Arise Austin Medical Center and Westlake Hills Surgery Center, both in Austin, Texas.
Surgery Requirements
- You will need to provide two referrals from qualified mental health professionals for genital procedures; one referral for other procedures unless otherwise specified by insurance.
- A letter from your hormone specialist stating you have been on 12 months of continuous hormones for genital procedures, unless clinically contraindicated.
- Age 18+ only.
Financing & Insurance
Dr. Crane accepts credit/debit cards, cashier's check, money order, wire transfer and medical financing via CareCredit. He also accepts insurance and is in-network with Cigna PPO, Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO, Commercial United Healthcare PPO and Employer Health Network (Whole Foods). He has also had success billing as an out-of-network provider with Aetna, Group Health, Harvard Pilgrim, HealthPartners and Medica.
Dr. Crane does not work with the following insurance providers: Medicare, Medicaid, Tri-Care, Kaiser, Ambetter and Oscar Health.
Booking a Consultation
Dr. Crane is available for phone or in-person consultations in Austin. If insurance is out-of-network, then the cost of the consultation is $200. If in-network, the consultation fee is the specialist co-pay. An in-person consultation is not required for booking a surgery date.
Current wait list: 4-6 weeks for a consultation; 5-6 weeks for a surgery date.
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