Procedures

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• Heart bypass surgery (CABG)

  冠状动脉搭桥术

  Open-heart surgery that reroutes blood around blocked arteries. In Chinese public hospitals the surgeon's fee itself is set by provincial government price catalogs.

  Coronary artery disease

• Heart stent (PCI)

  心脏支架（PCI）

  Catheter-based reopening of blocked arteries. Since China's 2021 national procurement, the stent implant itself costs about ¥700 — down from ¥13,000.

  Coronary artery disease

• Brain tumor surgery

  脑肿瘤切除术

  From hemispheric gliomas to skull-base and brainstem tumors, every open resection has a government-listed surgical fee — including the hardest operations in the catalog.

  Brain tumor

• Heart valve replacement

  心脏瓣膜置换术

  Replacement of a failed mitral or aortic valve with a mechanical or biological prosthesis. Surgical fees are government-listed; the prosthesis itself is billed separately.

  Heart valve disease

• Lung cancer surgery (lobectomy)

  肺叶切除术

  Removal of the lung lobe containing the tumor, today usually via keyhole (thoracoscopic) surgery. The listed fee below is the open-surgery item; thoracoscopic variants price on top of it with instruments.

  Lung cancer

• Liver resection (hepatectomy)

  肝切除术

  Removal of the tumor-bearing part of the liver — from a single segment to half the organ. Both open and laparoscopic approaches are routine at Chinese flagship centers.

  Liver cancer

• Cataract surgery (phaco + IOL)

  白内障超声乳化+人工晶体植入

  Ultrasonic removal of the clouded lens and implantation of an artificial one — a 20-minute outpatient procedure at high-volume centers.

  Cataract

• Hip / knee replacement

  人工髋/膝关节置换术

  Replacement of the worn joint with a prosthesis. Implants now cost about ¥7,000 (hip) and ¥5,000 (knee) under national procurement — down from ¥35,000 and ¥32,000.

  Hip and knee osteoarthritis

• Lumbar disc surgery

  腰椎间盘手术

  From microdiscectomy for a simple herniation to interbody fusion for instability — two very different price tiers, both listed below.

  Lumbar disc herniation

• Aneurysm clipping / coiling

  动脉瘤夹闭/介入栓塞

  Two routes to the same goal: open microsurgical clipping, or endovascular coiling through a catheter. Which fits your anatomy is a neurosurgical judgment.

  Brain aneurysm & AVM

• Deep brain stimulation (DBS)

  脑深部电刺激（DBS）

  Stereotactic implantation of electrodes and a pacemaker-like stimulator. The surgery fee is small; the device is the bill — and China's domestic systems changed that math.

  Parkinson's disease

• Aortic surgery (Bentall / arch replacement / TEVAR)

  主动脉手术（Bentall/全弓置换/介入）

  From root replacement (Bentall) to total arch replacement (the Sun procedure) to stent-graft repair for type B dissection — each tier has a listed surgical fee.

  Aortic aneurysm & dissection

• Whipple procedure

  胰十二指肠切除术（Whipple）

  Removal of the pancreatic head, duodenum and bile duct with triple reconstruction — the most complex routine operation in abdominal surgery.

  Pancreatic cancer

• NPC radiotherapy (IMRT)

  鼻咽癌调强放疗（IMRT）

  Intensity-modulated radiotherapy over roughly 30 sessions in about seven weeks is the curative backbone for NPC; chemotherapy is added by stage.

  Nasopharyngeal cancer

• Haploidentical stem-cell transplant

  亲缘半相合造血干细胞移植

  A transplant from a half-matched family donor — the Chinese-invented technique that solved the donor shortage. CAR-T therapy (eight approved products in China) is the other heavy option; see our CAR-T article for its numbers.

  Leukemia & lymphoma

• Scoliosis correction surgery

  脊柱侧弯矫正术

  Posterior correction with pedicle-screw instrumentation and fusion. The listed surgical fee is small; the multi-level implants are the bill.

  Severe scoliosis

• Colorectal cancer surgery

  结直肠癌根治术

  Radical resection with lymph node dissection — colon, or rectum with sphincter preservation (Dixon) where anatomy allows.

  Colorectal cancer

• Gastric cancer surgery (D2)

  胃癌根治术

  Radical gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection — the East Asian standard that Western guidelines adopted.

  Gastric cancer

• Esophagectomy

  食管癌根治术

  Resection of the esophagus with gastric pull-up reconstruction — one of thoracic surgery's biggest operations, increasingly done minimally invasively.

  Esophageal cancer

• Breast cancer surgery

  乳腺癌根治术

  From breast-conserving surgery to modified radical mastectomy, with sentinel node techniques standard at flagship centers.

  Breast cancer

• Stem cell transplant for thalassemia

  地中海贫血造血干细胞移植

  A one-time curative treatment: the patient's blood-forming system is replaced with a donor's — a matched sibling, or a half-matched (haploidentical) parent when no full match exists. Compare this once-off cost with lifelong transfusion and chelation, which alone can run ¥100,000–200,000 every year.

  Thalassemia

• Transcatheter closure (ASD / VSD / PDA)

  先心病介入封堵术

  For suitable defects, a closure device is placed through a vein — no open surgery, typically 3–5 days in hospital. The most travel-friendly path for families coming from abroad.

  Congenital heart disease (children)

• Open surgical repair (VSD / ASD / tetralogy of Fallot)

  先心病直视修补术

  Open-heart repair on cardiopulmonary bypass, for defects not suitable for a catheter device and for complex anatomy. The government catalog even lists a separate, higher fee for children six and under — pediatric surgery is priced transparently, not improvised.

  Congenital heart disease (children)

• Radical hysterectomy (cervical cancer surgery)

  宫颈癌根治术

  Radical removal of the uterus with pelvic and abdominal lymph node dissection — the standard operation for operable cervical cancer. For early precancerous lesions, a cone excision preserves fertility.

  Cervical cancer