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Primary total knee replacement — Brazil: Complete evidence

Ranking set only by published data — no clinic pays for placement

Official public tariff

R$5,622.68 (Ministry of Health — SUS official tariff act (Brazil), 2025): official public payment benchmark, not a self-pay patient price; coverage and eligibility vary. ≈ 1,111.88 USD · BCE / ECB · 2026-10-15 · 1 BRL = 0.19775 USD (cross rate from ECB euro reference rates)

Source: Ministry of Health — SUS official tariff act (Brazil) · Source period: 2025 · Captured: 2026-10-15 · n=1 observations
What this figure covers

Scope: Brazil. Payer context: Public tariff. Published base Valor Tabela SUS for the principal procedure; federal supplementation excluded. Source code: 0408050063.

n=1 eligible observations. n is not a patient count. Episode equivalence: unverified.

Historical 2025 official-act edition, not asserted current in 2026. issuedAt is the signature date; Art. 6 puts operational effect in the competence following publication. No unverified publication/effective date is encoded. Printed base procedure tariff only; the maximum federal supplementation percentage is a separate column and is not applied. Art. 3 §1 distinguishes the principal-procedure total from the global AIH/APAC admission amount. No claim that implants, separately billable materials, complications, hospital episode or follow-up match all basket inclusions. No SH/SP summation or currency conversion. Hip code is cemented primary total replacement; knee is primary total replacement. BRL unit is supported by the identical R$ arthroplasty totals in Portaria GM/MS nº 6.465/2024.

≈ 1,111.88 USD · BCE / ECB · 2026-10-15 · 1 BRL = 0.19775 USD (cross rate from ECB euro reference rates)

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Methodology and exclusions

Official wait

No eligible waiting time in this subset.

Frequently asked questions

What price has been published? (0408050063; 2025)

R$5,622.68 (Ministry of Health — SUS official tariff act (Brazil), 2025): official public payment benchmark, not a self-pay patient price; coverage and eligibility vary. ≈ 1,111.88 USD · BCE / ECB · 2026-10-15 · 1 BRL = 0.19775 USD (cross rate from ECB euro reference rates) Scope: Published base Valor Tabela SUS for the principal procedure; federal supplementation excluded. Captured: 2026-10-15. n=1. Source: https://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/saudelegis/saes/2025/prt2985_07_07_2025.html.

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CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC). “Primary total knee replacement — Brazil: Complete evidence.” Version 1; evidence capture cutoff 2026-10-15. https://carefareglobal.com/index/knee-replacement/brazil. Accessed: [YYYY-MM-DD: fill in access date].
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@misc{carefare_health_index__index_knee_replacement_brazil,
  author = {{CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC)}},
  title = {Primary total knee replacement — Brazil: Complete evidence},
  publisher = {CareFare Global Health Index},
  version = {1},
  date = {2026-10-15},
  url = {https://carefareglobal.com/index/knee-replacement/brazil},
  urldate = {YYYY-MM-DD},
  note = {Evidence capture cutoff: 2026-10-15. Fill in urldate before reuse; cite also the original source and source period.}
}

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