Surgical Suite

This listing of just 20 surgical procedures accounts for 58% of costs for all hospital surgeries and 27% of total hospital costs in the world most expensive healthcare nation.  Spinal fusions tops the list at $12.8b (avg. $16,000 per procedure), though the less common heart valve procedure at #8 actually is the most expensive at $53,400 per hospital stay.  Innovative techniques aimed at reducing costs, and wellness medicine that shrinks the population needing these procedures would influence other aims and achievements in the US.  MORE

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