By Dale Gieringer, Director, CA NORML. Like many medical marijuana users, Kristin Redeen needed additional prescription medications for her severe chronic pain. For seven years she had been treated at a private pain clinic in the Central Valley, where a doctor maintained her on Percocet, a semi-synthetic opioid.
Typical costs: Costs for a facelift usually range from $6,000 to $15,000, including an anesthesia fee of $1,000 to $1,300, a hospital fee of $500 to $2,000 and a surgeon's fee. A face lift will take more time, and cost more, for a patient with whose skin is less pliable or has been subjected to years of too much sun exposure.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. A few years back, a friend wrote in a story for New York magazine that I was going to have a luxury face-lift that spring. All told, it will cost her $30,000, including recovery in a fancy hotel and a private nurse attending to her every need.. That was 2008, but as it turned out, I had no luxuryâor, for that matter, budgetâface-lift that year, or any year thereafter.