Costs Estimation For Health Tourism

There is no standard system that determines what a hospital charges for a particular service or procedure. Many factors figure into hospital pricing, including an individual’s health circumstances, the cost of lab tests, X-rays, surgical procedures, operating room and post-surgical costs, medications, and doctors’ and specialists’ fees.

For example, if one patient’s recovery from an operation takes place in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and another patient’s recovery takes place in a recovery room, costs can vary by thousands of dollars, even if the two patients’ surgeries were similar. The cost of gallbladder surgery is different for someone with diabetes than it is for someone who doesn’t have diabetes.

In addition, overall hospital costs vary considerably depending upon where a hospital is situated and who winds up paying the bill — the patient, an insurance company or a government program such as Medicare or Medicaid. No two hospitals are likely to be the same. So regardless of a hospital’s published fee schedules for a service or procedure, the best information that a prospective patient can receive is a good-faith estimate. Until the bill is actually processed, there is no reliable way to assess a patient’s final hospital costs.

However, for more convenience, we have brought some basic costs for you here. We emphasize again that these prices are not the whole costs you may incur and you may consider them as the minimum amount of the costs.