Primary total hip replacement — Australia: What it costs and how long people wait
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The answer from the data
- A$24,031.35 (Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia), 2026/27): official public payment benchmark, not a self-pay patient price; coverage and eligibility vary. — Admitted acute public hospital inlier baseline: AR-DRG weight × National Efficient Price; minor complexity Source: Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia) · Captured: 2026-10-15 · n=1
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Official public tariff
A$24,031.35 (Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia), 2026/27): official public payment benchmark, not a self-pay patient price; coverage and eligibility vary.
Source: Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia) · Source period: 2026/27 · Captured: 2026-10-15 · n=1 observationsWhat this figure covers
Scope: Australia. Payer context: Public tariff. Admitted acute public hospital inlier baseline: AR-DRG weight × National Efficient Price; minor complexity. Source code: I33B.
n=1 eligible observations. n is not a patient count. Episode equivalence: unverified.
Derived national efficient funding benchmark, not a patient or international self-pay price. Inlier stay only; lowest published complexity group. No paediatric, remoteness, Indigenous, radiotherapy, dialysis, ICU, private-patient, hospital-acquired-complication or readmission adjustments applied. Routine outpatient follow-up is not established. DRG inclusion equivalence is unverified.
USD equivalent: 16,607.59 USD. USD conversion: ECB/Frankfurter, 2026-10-15, 1 AUD = 0.69108 USD
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| Country | Summary and detail |
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| Belgium | Public payment tariffsPublic doctor fee onlypublished amount: 848.14 EUR · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| Brazil | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 7,961.81 BRL · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| Canada | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 4 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Chile | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 6,630,640 CLP · 3 price series · n=3 observations |
| Denmark | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 2 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Spain | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 1 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Finland | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 2 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| France | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 5,654.51 EUR · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| United Kingdom | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 7,426 GBP · 1 price series · n=1 observations Private published pricesScope not establishedguide price from (guide / approximate): 16,761 GBP · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| India | Private published pricesComponent onlypublished guide / approximate amount: 90,000 INR · 1 price series · n=1 observations Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 46,300–76,400 INR · 3 price series · n=9 observations |
| Italy | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 2 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Japan | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 376,900 JPY · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| Malaysia | Private published pricesPublished package; check inclusionspublished amount: 32,000 MYR · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| Norway | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 2 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| New Zealand | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 4 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Poland | Private published pricesPublished package; check inclusionsfrom: 27,900–29,900 PLN · 2 price series · n=2 observations |
| Portugal | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 4 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Sweden | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 4 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Thailand | Private published pricesComponent onlypublished guide / approximate amount: 420,000 THB · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| Türkiye | Private published pricesComponent onlypublished guide / approximate amount: 6,000 GBP · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| United States | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 13,116.76 USD · 1 price series · n=1 observations Public doctor fee onlypublished amount: 1,041.64–1,445.67 USD · 1 price series · n=109 observations |
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What price has been published? (I33B; 2026/27)
A$24,031.35 (Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia), 2026/27): official public payment benchmark, not a self-pay patient price; coverage and eligibility vary. Scope: Admitted acute public hospital inlier baseline: AR-DRG weight × National Efficient Price; minor complexity. Captured: 2026-10-15. n=1. Source: https://www.ihacpa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-03/national_efficient_price_determination_2026-27_2.pdf.
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author = {{CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC)}},
title = {CareFare Global Health Index: Primary total hip replacement — Australia: What it costs and how long people wait},
publisher = {CareFare Global Health Index},
version = {1},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://carefareglobal.com/index/hip-replacement/australia},
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note = {Evidence capture cutoff: 2026-10-15. Fill in urldate before reuse; cite also the original source and source period.}
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- Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia) — https://www.ihacpa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-03/national_efficient_price_determination_2026-27_2.pdf
Source periods: 2026/27. Capture dates: 2026-10-15.