Bagaimana menurut agan2 sekalian, apakah biaya operasi jantung yang hanya sekitar 16juta ini murah? Ada yang tau berapa biaya untuk operasi bypass di Indonesia?
Spoiler for Heart Surgery in India for $1,583:
Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
Shetty is not a public health official motivated by charity. He’s a heart surgeon turned businessman who has started a chain of 21 medical centers around India. By trimming costs with such measures as buying cheaper scrubs and spurning air-conditioning, he has cut the price of artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery to 95,000 rupees ($1,583), half of what it was 20 years ago, and wants to get the price down to $800 within a decade. The same procedure costs $106,385 at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“It shows that costs can be substantially contained,” said Srinath Reddy, president of the Geneva-based World Heart Federation, of Shetty’s approach. “It’s possible to deliver very high quality cardiac care at a relatively low cost.”
Medical experts like Reddy are watching closely, eager to see if Shetty’s driven cost-cutting can point the way for hospitals to boost revenue on a wider scale by making life-saving heart operations more accessible to potentially millions of people in India and other developing countries.
“The current price of everything that you see in health care is predominantly opportunistic pricing and the outcome of inefficiency,” Shetty, 60, said in an interview in his office in Bangalore, where he started his chain of hospitals, with the opening of his flagship center, Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City, in 2001.
Bukan hanya murah tapi pelayanan-nya juga berkualitas dengan angka kematian pasca operasi (30 hari) sebesar 1,4% lebih baik dari rata2 angka kematian di amerika yang sebesar 1,9% pada tahun 2008. (ada yang tau kalau di indonesia berapa tingkat kematian pasca operasi jantung ?)
Spoiler for Berita Tambahan:
Cardiac Bypass Surgery for Just $1,583
Ronald Bailey | Jul. 29, 2013 10:01 am
Who knew? Entrepreneurship and competition reduces health care costs quite dramatically as Dr. Devi Shetty has proven in India. Shetty opened and now runs a chain of 21 medical centers in India in which physicians offer complicated medical treatments as little as a 1/50th their cost in the United States. As Bloomberg reports:
By trimming costs with such measures as buying cheaper scrubs and spurning air-conditioning, he has cut the price of artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery to 95,000 rupees ($1,583), half of what it was 20 years ago, and wants to get the price down to $800 within a decade. The same procedure costs $106,385 at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“It shows that costs can be substantially contained,” said Srinath Reddy, president of the Geneva-based World Heart Federation, of Shetty’s approach. “It’s possible to deliver very high quality cardiac care at a relatively low cost.
How high quality? The Economist reported:
Narayana Hrudayalaya reports a 1.4% mortality rate within 30 days of coronary artery bypass graft surgery, one of the most common procedures, compared with an average of 1.9% in the United States in 2008, according to data gathered by the Chicago-based Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
