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How serious is an inguinal hernia?

Everyone has inguinal hernias to some degree—they’re born with them. Only when they widen or weaken does it become a problem because intestines can be forced through. Even that may not be a serious problem because your intestines can sometimes fall back through it where they belong (“reducible”). However, things will not get better (the hernia will not cure itself), so this can lead to contents becoming trapped (“incarcerated”); this may lead to  death of bowel tissue, which is a life-threatening emergency.

What is an inguinal hernia?

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What is the recovery from hernia surgery?

* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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