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Published procedure prices

Coronary angioplasty and stent in China: the published price

Two lines: opening a narrowed artery with a balloon, and opening it and leaving a stent in place. The stent is the bigger number, and it is the line worth reading twice — the published figure is the procedure, and what the stent itself costs is not in it. The cardiac CT and cardiac MRI lines are the imaging that decides whether an intervention is needed at all.

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
Percutaneous coronary balloon angioplasty
Project code: HKU80201 · Schedule name: 经皮冠状动脉球囊扩张术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含监护、DSA引导 Add-on: 每增加1支加收不超过50%. Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$201per operation¥1,350
Percutaneous coronary stent implantation
Project code: HKU80202 · Schedule name: 经皮冠状动脉支架置入术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含监护、DSA引导 Add-on: 每增加1支加收不超过50%. Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$491per operation¥3,300
Cardiac CT with function analysis
Imaging price · Standard public ward
$32¥218
Cardiac MRI (plain or contrast)
Imaging price · Standard public ward
$60¥400

Source: Jun 15, 2019 · Mar 26, 2024

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.

Cardiology

#1in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Fuwai Hospital中国医学科学院阜外医院 · Beijing
#2in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Zhongshan Hospital (Shanghai)复旦大学附属中山医院 · Shanghai
#5in Cardiology
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 Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital广东省人民医院 · Guangzhou
#6in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital广东省人民医院 · Guangzhou
#7in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		West China Hospital, Sichuan University四川大学华西医院 · Chengdu
#8in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University哈尔滨医科大学附属第二医院 · Harbin
#9in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		Ruijin Hospital上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院 · Shanghai
#10in Cardiology
2023 · Fudan SRCAIH		The First Affiliated Hospital of Peking University北京大学第一医院 · Beijing

Other procedures with published prices

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