Sign in
Published procedure prices

Anaesthesia in China: the published price

Two lines, each covering up to two hours: general anaesthesia and a single-shot spinal. Both are priced per two hours, so a long operation is billed in blocks and the cost of the anaesthetist rises with the length of the surgery rather than with the procedure's complexity. The airway equipment, the monitoring and the recovery room are excluded from the lines, and the schedule says so.

The published price lines

Every line Beijing's schedule publishes for this procedure, with the project code the hospital bills against and the date the schedule took effect. One row per line, not one total.

ItemPublished price
General anaesthesia, up to two hours
Project code: HAA42901 · Schedule name: 全身麻醉
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 人工鼻， 异型气管 导管、气 管插管、 双腔管、 套管针 Excluded from this price line: 不含麻醉恢复室监护及特殊气管插管术、特殊检查等 Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$94per 2 hours¥633
Single-shot spinal anaesthesia, up to two hours
Project code: HAC42101 · Schedule name: 单次腰麻
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 蓄氧面 罩、一次 性麻醉包 Add-on: 每增加1小时加收不超过50%. Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$78per 2 hours¥527

Source: Jun 15, 2019

Chinese hospitals publish prices in CNY; the CNY figures are converted for readability using an indicative rate and are not a quoted price. International-department services are priced by each hospital and are typically well above these statutory rates. Always obtain a written quote before travelling.

What this price is

A line in Beijing's published medical service price schedule: the rate a hospital in that city bills against for the procedure itself, for a patient on the standard public ward. It is not a quote, not an estimate and not a total. An international department sets its own prices, and a patient who is not on the Chinese insurance system is usually charged under that department's list — which is higher, sometimes considerably higher.

What the line does not cover

A published surgical price is the procedure line, never the invoice. The schedule says which items each line excludes, and the row above prints that list. Sutures, haemostatic materials, drains, the laparoscope and its consumables, staplers, clips, energy devices, anti-adhesion film, glue, the implant or mesh, the fixation device, imaging guidance in theatre and the clean operating theatre itself are billed on top. So are the ward, the medicines and the investigations before and after. The figure in the table is the part that is published; the invoice is not.

What the stay costs on top

A bed is a bed, wherever you are admitted, so the published ward rates apply to every one of these procedures. They are per day, and they are the clearest published account of what actually drives cost in a Chinese hospital: ward class, not privacy.

What a hospital bed costs per day in Beijing
  • General ward bed¥50
    / day
  • Three-bed room¥60
    / day
  • Intensive care unit bed¥60
    / day
  • Single room¥80
    / day
  • ISO-7 cleanroom bed¥300
    / day
  • Special protective ward bed¥1,100
    / day

Published daily rates. The spread across room types is small — a single room costs ¥30 more than a shared one — while the spread across ward classes is 22 times. The multiplier in a Chinese hospital is ward class, not privacy.

Ward rates (per day)

Where to have it

The hospitals we list that carry this specialty, with the reputation positions we can attribute to a source. A published schedule line tells you what the procedure costs in a Chinese city. It does not tell you which hospital to go to, and it is not a quality ranking.

Anaesthesiology

#1in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		West China Hospital, Sichuan University四川大学华西医院 · Chengdu
#2in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Peking Union Medical College Hospital中国医学科学院北京协和医院 · Beijing
#3in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Renji Hospital上海交通大学医学院附属仁济医院 · Shanghai
#5in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		PLA General Hospital中国人民解放军总医院 · Beijing
#6in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Zhongshan Hospital (Shanghai)复旦大学附属中山医院 · Shanghai
#7in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University南方医科大学南方医院 · Guangzhou
#8in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University郑州大学第一附属医院 · Zhengzhou
#9in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Huashan Hospital复旦大学附属华山医院 · Shanghai
#10in Anaesthesiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Xiangya Hospital, Central South University中南大学湘雅医院 · Changsha

Other procedures with published prices

The rest of the schedule we have read, grouped by the operation a patient would name.