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Heart surgery patients in America pay 83% more for heart-bypass surgery than Canadians. This has verified the latest market study of Archives of Internal Medicine. The main reasons are higher medicine and labor costs. Researchers compared the results and costs of treating 12,017 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery at five U.S. hospitals and four in Canada. The average bypass-procedure cost was $20,673 in the U.S. and $10,373 in Canada, before adjustments.
Total spending for common hospital operating room procedures in nonfederal community hospitals was over $166 billion. The top three surgical procedures in terms of overall cost were: spinal fusion surgery ($11.26 billion), balloon angioplasty of the heart ($11 billion), and knee replacement surgery ($10.36 billion).ospital and Surgery Costs. Total health care spending in America was approximately $2.7 trillion in 2011. A little over 31 percent of that amount, or $814 billion, was spent on hospital services.