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Published procedure prices

Brain surgery: aneurysm and meningioma in China: the published price

Two lines, both microsurgical: clipping and removing a giant intracranial aneurysm with the carotid exposed, and removing a parasagittal meningioma with the venous sinus reconstructed. Both are the kind of operation where the price is a small part of the decision, and both exclude the implants, the consumables and the intensive care that follows. The intensive care rate is one of the ward rates on this page.

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
Microsurgical clipping and excision of a giant intracranial aneurysm, with carotid exposure
Project code: HBJ73303 · Schedule name: 显微镜下颅内巨大动脉瘤夹闭切除术+颈动脉暴露术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含神经导航、荧光造影、神经电生理监测、术中超声监测 Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$1,489per operation¥10,000
Microsurgical excision of a parasagittal meningioma with venous sinus reconstruction
Project code: HBM74301 · Schedule name: 显微镜下大静脉矢状窦脑膜瘤切除血管窦旁重建术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含神经导航、神经电生理监测、超声吸引、术中超声监测 Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$745per operation¥5,000

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.

Neurosurgery

#1in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Beijing Tiantan Hospital首都医科大学附属北京天坛医院 · Beijing
#2in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Huashan Hospital复旦大学附属华山医院 · Shanghai
#3in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		West China Hospital, Sichuan University四川大学华西医院 · Chengdu
#5in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine浙江大学医学院附属第二医院 · Hangzhou
#6in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Tianjin Medical University General Hospital天津医科大学总医院 · Tianjin
#7in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		PLA General Hospital中国人民解放军总医院 · Beijing
#9in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Xiangya Hospital, Central South University中南大学湘雅医院 · Changsha
#10in Neurosurgery
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		China-Japan Friendship Hospital中日友好医院 · Beijing

Other procedures with published prices

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