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Published procedure prices

Pacemaker implantation in China: the published price

Three lines, one for each chamber: a single-chamber pacemaker, a dual-chamber one, and a triple-chamber one. The step between them is steep, because a dual-chamber device costs twice a single-chamber one and a triple-chamber device three times. The device itself is not in the line.

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
Single-chamber permanent pacemaker implantation
Project code: HKT62201 · Schedule name: 单腔永久起搏器安置术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含监护、DSA引导 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
Dual-chamber permanent pacemaker implantation
Project code: HKT62202 · Schedule name: 双腔永久起搏器安置术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含监护、DSA引导 Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$402per operation¥2,700
Triple-chamber permanent pacemaker implantation
Project code: HKT62203 · Schedule name: 三腔永久起搏器安置术
Procedure line · Standard public ward
Excluded from this price line: 不含监护、DSA引导 Procedure line only. Implants, consumables, imaging guidance and the operating theatre are billed on top. Standard public ward, not an international-department price.
$603per operation¥4,050

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.

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

Other procedures with published prices

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