> That's what he paid out of the US as well, I guess that's what it costs. Please explain why you said $78k in your original post. No no, you're mixing up diff

> That's what he paid out of the US as well, I guess that's what it costs. Please explain why you said $78k in your original post. No no, you're mixing up different numbers. By the way, the $78k ($13 + $65k) didn't even include the surgeon's fee: "[...] he reached out to a sailing buddy with friends at a medical device manufacturer, which arranged to provide his local hospital with an implant at what was described as the “list price” of $13,000, with no markup. But when the hospital’s finance office estimated that the hospital charges would run another $65,000, not including the surgeon’s fee, he knew he had to think outside the box, and outside the country." " [...] he ultimately chose to have his hip replaced in 2007 at a private hospital outside Brussels for $13,660. That price included not only a hip joint, made by Warsaw-based Zimmer Holdings, but also all doctors’ fees, operating room charges, crutches, medicine, a hospital room for five days, a week in rehab and a round-trip ticket from America. " "The Belgian hospital paid about $4,000 for Mr. Shopenn’s high-end Zimmer implant at a time when American hospitals were paying an average of over $8,000 for the same model."