Published procedure prices

Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in China: the published price

Four ways of doing the same bypass, priced as four lines: through a median sternotomy, through a lateral incision on a beating heart, through a small incision with the heart-lung machine, and with a thoracoscope. The three cardiac imaging lines — coronary CT angiography, coronary MR angiography and a calcium score — are what a surgeon looks at before choosing. Cardiopulmonary bypass is excluded from two of the four lines and carries its own add-on where it is included.

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.

Item	Published price
CABG, median sternotomy Project code: HKU86301 · Schedule name: 正中切口冠状动脉旁路移植术 Procedure line · Standard public ward Excluded from this price line: 不含体外循环 (excl. cardiopulmonary bypass). Add-on: +≤20% per vein bridge, +≤80% per arterial bridge, +≤50% if CPB conversion; 不停跳加收 3,000元 (beating-heart +3,000).	$1,043¥7,000
CABG, lateral incision (beating heart) Project code: HKU86302 · Schedule name: 侧切口冠状动脉旁路移植术 Procedure line · Standard public ward Excluded from this price line: the schedule names no exclusion for this line; same add-on ladder as CABG, median sternotomy.	$1,281¥8,600
CABG, mini-incision under CPB Project code: HKU86303 · Schedule name: 小切口体外循环下冠状动脉旁路移植术 Procedure line · Standard public ward Excluded from this price line: 不含体外循环; with the same add-on ladder as CABG, median sternotomy.	$1,355¥9,100
CABG, thoracoscope-assisted Project code: HKU86501 · Schedule name: 胸腔镜辅助下冠状动脉旁路移植术 Procedure line · Standard public ward Excluded from this price line: the schedule names no exclusion for this line; with the same add-on ladder as CABG, median sternotomy.	$1,355¥9,100
Coronary CT angiography (3D) Imaging price · Standard public ward	$31¥205
Coronary MR angiography Imaging price · Standard public ward	$60¥400
Coronary artery calcium score Imaging price · Standard public ward	$25¥170

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.

Cardiac Surgery

#1in Cardiac Surgery 2023 · Fudan SRCAIH	Fuwai Hospital中国医学科学院阜外医院 · Beijing
#3in Cardiac Surgery 2023 · Fudan SRCAIH	Zhongshan Hospital (Shanghai)复旦大学附属中山医院 · Shanghai
#4in Cardiac Surgery 2023 · Fudan SRCAIH	Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology华中科技大学同济医学院附属协和医院 · Wuhan
#5in Cardiac Surgery 2023 · Fudan SRCAIH	Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital广东省人民医院 · Guangzhou
#7in Cardiac Surgery 2023 · Fudan SRCAIH	West China Hospital, Sichuan University四川大学华西医院 · Chengdu
#8in Cardiac Surgery 2023 · Fudan SRCAIH	The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University中南大学湘雅二医院 · Changsha

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.

Four questions to ask before you book

Each of these gets you a written answer from the hospital. Nothing on this page can.

1. Do you have a dedicated international department, and will it see a patient who is paying for themselves?
2. Do you bill international insurers directly, or do I pay and claim back?
3. Can you give me a written estimate before I book, and what is the deposit?
4. Will my records and discharge summary be in English?

Send those four questions to the hospital's international department in writing, before you travel, and keep the answers. A written answer from the hospital is worth more than any estimate on this page, including the ones we have published.

Source: Beijing Municipal Healthcare Security Bureau, published medical service price schedule, dated 26 March 2024. Prices confirmed 2024-03-26 and are flagged as needing re-checking before you rely on them. These are standard public-ward rates; an international patient self-paying in a private or international ward will pay more, sometimes considerably more.