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I don’t know, but it may well make sense. Private treatment often is quite reasonable because the alternative is free. You can get a private self-referral MRI f
by Brakenshire 8y ago
I don’t know, but it may well make sense. Private treatment often is quite reasonable because the alternative is free. You can get a private self-referral MRI for instance for £200-400 in the UK. I haven’t heard of people coming from the US for treatment though, only about people from the UK going to Poland for dentistry, which apparently is cheap and good quality.
- sverige 8y agoI ended up paying $8k out of pocket after my pretty good insurance paid out. I'm still astonished at the overall cost, though.
- randerson 8y ago$160K sounds cheap to me if you're in the US. I had a heart ablation a few years back for an irregular heart beat. Like the procedure in the article its minimally invasive where they go in through the groin to zap some electricity at a few cells in the heart. I was conscious throughout and was back at work the next day. They billed $400K for that, and insurance negotiated it down to around ~$120K. For something as complex as what you've mentioned I'd have expected 7 figures.
- tehlike 8y agoDental might or might not make sense. Depends on how many surgeries you need usually. Implants here in the us costs ~5-6k. Implants where i came from is around 700$, but thing with implants is it needs a lot of time during recovery. Like 3 months after bonegraft etc. You can also det double insurance for cheap-ish and get it covered like that in the us for about 1/6th the price. For most non emergency surgeries (some heart surgeries are in that category, you can plan in advance), europe does make sense, especially insurance is not good. At some point i thought that could be oretty good way to balance out cost here.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoI was advised to have a mole removed. The private clinic in London wanted £700 for the removal, and the initial consultation was £250. I flew to Poland instead, and had it removed at another private clinic for £80. All the staff in the top clinic in London are Polish anyway. Paying crazy amounts of money for medical procedures is just dumb. I cannot understand why Americans would pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for surgery when they could fly to Europe, live the highlife, and also buy a house with the change.
- surfmike 8y agoBecause their insurance pays.
- raverbashing 8y agoYeah, but the copay sounds it could be more expensive than doing it entirely abroad
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoPlease see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19411068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19411068