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In the USA, heart transplants cost about $145,000.00 but this does not include the separate doctor / specialist / surgeon's fees, anesthesia, tests, and costs for complications. It also does not include the ongoing costs of anti-rejection medications.
Medicare and Medicaid might cover some costs, but not all.
Source: Battelle Institute/Seattle Research Center
- According to Transplant Living, the average total cost of a single heart transplant in 2007 was $658,800. This figure includes the cost of obtaining a donor heart, at an average of nearly $90,000, about $23,000 in evaluation fees, $40,000 for doctor's fees, $383,000 in hospital costs, $93,000 in post-operative care, and over $29,000 for immunosuppressive prescription medications. Transplants that involved both a heart and a lung cost an average of $874,800, while heart and kidney combination transplants cost an average of $758,700.
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It cost over 200,000 dollars total for me. That's why insurance is very important.
it depends on where the transplant will be located, the condition of the pacient and it may be upto 90,000 dollars Canadian
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