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Is laparoscopic cholecystectomy a major surgery?

Any surgical procedure carries some risk, including infection, bleeding, and damage to nearby body organs. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a major surgery in the sense that a body organ, the gallbladder, is being removed. However, it is now considered routine surgery, with over 600,000 such surgeries being performed yearly in the United States. The complication rate is approximately 0.5%.

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* 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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