Public tariffs, separately identified private published prices and public waiting times for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, drawn from government schedules, hospital price publications and waiting-time registries (cutoff: 2026-10-19).
What a complete procedure typically includes
Our reference definition covers: surgeon, anaesthesia, facility, routine follow-up. It excludes: open conversion, bile duct exploration, complications. Note: Government tariff codes below follow each country’s own billing rules and may exclude implants, doctor fees, or follow-up care—check each country card for what is included.
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Public tariffs are not private cash prices: Public-tariff rows show what a government health system (such as the UK NHS, US Medicare, or French public insurance) pays a hospital or doctor—not what you pay out of pocket as a private patient.
Published private packages are separate from public tariffs: Private packages carry their hospital name and published scope. Check whether the price is partial or hospital-wide: Some schedules publish a single hospital payment, while others (like US Medicare) split the doctor’s fee and the hospital facility fee into separate rows. We never add separate fees together.
Two different ways countries measure waiting times: Some countries report how long people currently on the waiting list have been waiting so far (e.g., Spain), while others report the total wait for patients who already had their procedure (e.g., Poland, Denmark).
Official benchmarks with unverified episode equivalence do not establish the cost of the complete procedure. Historical periods do not describe current appointment availability.
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$8,748.77 USD (single published tariff, n=1) (12,659.56 AUD)What the public health system pays (official tariff)Official government source (L2)Admitted acute public hospital inlier baseline: AR-DRG weight × National Efficient Price; minor complexity · Schedule: 2026/27Source: Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (Australia)
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
— Not yet in our official snapshot for Australia
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · Admitted acute public hospital inlier baseline: AR-DRG weight × National Efficient Price; minor complexity · code H08B · source period 2026/27
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$196.26 USD (single published tariff, n=1) (992.45 BRL)What the public health system pays (official tariff)Official government source (L2)Published base Valor Tabela SUS for the principal procedure; federal supplementation excluded · Schedule: 2025Source: Ministry of Health — SUS official tariff act (Brazil)
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
— Not yet in our official snapshot for Brazil
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · Published base Valor Tabela SUS for the principal procedure; federal supplementation excluded · code 0407030034 · source period 2025
96 days (~3.2 months)Average time spent on the public waiting list so far (patients currently waiting)National average time that patients still waiting for surgery had spent on the public list as of 2025-12-31.Period: 2025-12-31Historical data (2025-12-31) — not current waitSource: Spain Ministry of Health (SISLE)
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
mean; waiting patients · procedure · source period 2025-12-31
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$3,694.86 USD (single published tariff, n=1) (2,785 GBP)What the NHS pays the hospital (England public tariff)Official government source (L2)Hospital surgery spell (day-case or inpatient stay, before local regional adjustments) · Schedule: 2026/27 · EnglandSource: NHS England (NHS Payment Scheme)
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
12.78 weeksTypical (median) time on the public waiting list (patients currently waiting)General Surgery Service (specialty-level wait, not a procedure-specific wait)Half of patients still on the public waiting list as of 2026-08 had been waiting less than this.Period: 2026-08 · EnglandSource: NHS England (Referral to Treatment)
41.19 weeksLong-wait benchmark: 92% of waiting-list patients have waited less than (92nd percentile, currently waiting)General Surgery Service (specialty-level wait, not a procedure-specific wait)92% of patients still on the public list as of 2026-08 had waited this long or less.Period: 2026-08 · EnglandSource: NHS England (Referral to Treatment)
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · Combined day case / ordinary elective spell unit price before market forces factor · code GA10K · source period 2026/27
median; waiting patients · General Surgery Service · source period 2026-08
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$382.53 USD median (typical range p25–p75: 354.68–395.66 USD across 3 observations) (36,400 INR median)What India’s PM-JAY public insurance pays the hospitalOfficial government source (L2)Public hospital package rate across 3 city tiers — excludes separately priced implants and state top-ups · Schedule: 2022Source: India National Health Authority (PM-JAY)
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
— Not yet in our official snapshot for India
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · HBP 2022 city-tier procedure tariff; separately mapped implants are excluded; state amendments/accreditation incentives not applied · code SG039C · source period 2022
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$1,360.97 USD (single published tariff, n=1) (215,000 JPY)What the public health system pays (official tariff)Official government source (L2)Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; operation fee only · Schedule: 2026-06-01Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan)
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
— Not yet in our official snapshot for Japan
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; operation fee only · code K672-2 · source period 2026-06-01
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$6,176.47 USD (single published tariff, n=1)What US Medicare pays the hospital (outpatient facility only)Official government source (L2)Hospital outpatient facility fee only — excludes the surgeon’s professional fee · Schedule: 2026-10Source: US Medicare (CMS OPPS)
$624.4 USD median (typical range p25–p75: 610.5–663.57 USD across 109 observations)What US Medicare pays the doctor (surgeon fee only)Official government source (L2)Doctor’s professional fee only — excludes hospital room, anaesthesia, and implant · Schedule: 2026-01Source: US Medicare (CMS Physician Fee Schedule)
Separate hospital and doctor payment schedules. Do not add together: we never sum them into a synthetic total.
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
— Not yet in our official snapshot for United States
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · PFS professional fee in facility; non-QP; excludes hospital, anaesthesia and implant · code 47562 · source period 2026-01
public_tariff · OPPS national unadjusted hospital outpatient facility payment; excludes separate professional fee · code 47562 · source period 2026-10
Countries in the index without official data for laparoscopic cholecystectomy yet: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Malaysia, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Thailand, Türkiye.
Public payment tariffs · United States · PFS professional fee in facility; non-QP; excludes hospital, anaesthesia and implant · 2026-01 · USD
Each row is a separate published payment series, not a clinical ranking or a complete procedure quote. Solid teal bars indicate public hospital/episode tariffs; dashed amber bars indicate public doctor-only professional fees; purple bars indicate private published prices.
Public payment tariffs · United States · OPPS national unadjusted hospital outpatient facility payment; excludes separate professional fee · 2026-10 · USD
Each row is a separate published payment series, not a clinical ranking or a complete procedure quote. Solid teal bars indicate public hospital/episode tariffs; dashed amber bars indicate public doctor-only professional fees; purple bars indicate private published prices.
median · waiting · specialty · 2026-08 · as_reported · no definition/provisional flag recorded
Only series with the same statistic, population, source period, scope, aggregation and definition flags share an axis. National definition deviations remain separate. These are historical statistics, not appointment availability.
p92 · waiting · specialty · 2026-08 · as_reported · no definition/provisional flag recorded
Only series with the same statistic, population, source period, scope, aggregation and definition flags share an axis. National definition deviations remain separate. These are historical statistics, not appointment availability.Inspect complete statistical table (all series, quantiles, procedure codes, FX rates & exclusions)
CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC). “CareFare Global Health Index: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy.” Version 1; evidence capture cutoff 2026-10-15. https://carefareglobal.com/index/lap-cholecystectomy. Accessed: [YYYY-MM-DD: fill in access date].
BibTeX
@misc{carefare_health_index__index_lap_cholecystectomy,
author = {{CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC)}},
title = {CareFare Global Health Index: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy},
publisher = {CareFare Global Health Index},
version = {1},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://carefareglobal.com/index/lap-cholecystectomy},
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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NHS England (Referral to Treatment) — https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Incomplete-Commissioner-Aug26-XLSX-4M-vjgRdG.xlsx Source periods: 2026-08. Capture dates: 2026-10-14.
Public Health Scotland — https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/e9dbef36-a343-4b9a-ab7e-b6e6cbcbb38e/resource/ac63b747-fdcc-410c-ae43-de6fe3c46abf/download/sot_performance_ongoing_completed_waits_monthly_aug26.csv Source periods: 2026-08. Capture dates: 2026-10-14.
India National Health Authority (PM-JAY) — https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3169779d3852b32ce8b1a1724dbf5217d/uploads/2024/06/20240619792610196.pdf Source periods: 2022. Capture dates: 2026-10-14.
Spain Ministry of Health (SISLE) — https://www.sanidad.gob.es/estadEstudios/estadisticas/inforRecopilaciones/docs/LISTAS_PUBLICACION_Dic_2025_rectificado.pdf Source periods: 2025-12-31. Capture dates: 2026-10-14.