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R$5,622.68 (Ministry of Health — SUS official tariff act (Brazil), 2025): official public payment benchmark, not a self-pay patient price; coverage and eligibility vary. ≈ 1,111.88 USD · BCE / ECB · 2026-10-15 · 1 BRL = 0.19775 USD (cross rate from ECB euro reference rates)
Source: Ministry of Health — SUS official tariff act (Brazil) · Source period: 2025 · Captured: 2026-10-15 · n=1 observationsScope: Brazil. Payer context: Public tariff. Published base Valor Tabela SUS for the principal procedure; federal supplementation excluded. Source code: 0408050063.
n=1 eligible observations. n is not a patient count. Episode equivalence: unverified.
Historical 2025 official-act edition, not asserted current in 2026. issuedAt is the signature date; Art. 6 puts operational effect in the competence following publication. No unverified publication/effective date is encoded. Printed base procedure tariff only; the maximum federal supplementation percentage is a separate column and is not applied. Art. 3 §1 distinguishes the principal-procedure total from the global AIH/APAC admission amount. No claim that implants, separately billable materials, complications, hospital episode or follow-up match all basket inclusions. No SH/SP summation or currency conversion. Hip code is cemented primary total replacement; knee is primary total replacement. BRL unit is supported by the identical R$ 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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| Country | Summary and detail |
|---|---|
| Belgium | Public payment tariffsPublic doctor fee onlypublished amount: 782.34 EUR · 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: 6,529,650 CLP · 3 price series · n=3 observations |
| Denmark | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 3 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: 6,262.33 EUR · 1 price series · n=1 observations |
| United Kingdom | Public payment tariffsPublic hospital / intervention tariff; check scopepublished amount: 7,396 GBP · 1 price series · n=1 observations Private published pricesScope not establishedguide price from (guide / approximate): 16,665 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: 36,400–43,600 INR · 1 price series · n=3 observations |
| Italy | Price: — Not in snapshot yetOfficial public wait: 2 series; statistics, populations and periods in details.View figures and sources → |
| Malaysia | Private published pricesPublished package; check inclusionspublished amount: 25,000 MYR · 1 price series · n=1 observations Price confirmed in writing by the clinicComponent onlypublished amount: 28,888 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: 310,000 THB · 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: 1,039.69–1,443.34 USD · 1 price series · n=109 observations |
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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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