Questions in The Neurology Forum are being answered by doctors from The Cleveland Clinic , consistently ranked one of the best hospitals in America. We have a health insurance and we need to know how much would it cost. Of course, surgical procedures are expensive.
More complex ones can be more expensive.
The most direct way to find out the cost is to ask the hospital and surgeon directly what the costs are. The key is to be persistent and discuss it with billing specialists. The doctors will almost never know. Ask the billing specialists. Also, I think I understand from your post that you DO have health insurance.