cost of laparoscopic supracervical surgery
Minimally invasive techniques for hysterectomies benefit employers and health plans by lowering overall expenditures. While an open hysterectomy costs an average of $11,739 in a hospital setting, an outpatient laparoscopic hysterectomy is $9,426 and vaginal hysterectomy only $7,627.63. With minimally invasive surgery for hysterectomy, payors may have an opportunity to improve quality while also lowering expenditures.