Hip arthroscopy costs

[KIPSTER]

Daughter has been diagnosed with hip labrum tear (acetabular labrum tear) and we are looking to pay for this privately as through the NHS this will take several month to get a referal.

Can anyone advise me on the full costs for this procedure and best hospitals (Wrightington has been mentioned).

Many thanks.

[artywiz]

Have a look at a guy called Prof Damien Griffiths' website......don't know the cost but he does NHS as well. If you email his private secretary she will get back to you with in 24hrs.

[ucb]

The BUPA schedule of payments is around £700-£800 for the surgical fee for a hip arthroscopy. Does not include other possible costs, and the BUPA schedule has not been updated for a long time, so most surgeons will charge more (which depends on area/demand etc)

http://www.bupa.co.uk/jahia/webdav/site/bupacouk/s...

[RRS_Staffs]

Western Provident publish the following fees:

W8620 Therapeutic arthroscopy of hip eg removal of loose bodies Surgeon £900.00 Anaesthetist £335.00

The hospital will have their own fee on top
If you phone them they will tell you and will possibly have a fixed price package for the lot

Why do you have to wait so long on the NHS?

[The_Doc]

Hip arthroscopy is becoming a dead end on the NHS as the wallet holders (The Primary Care Trusts - PCTs) put it on their list of treatments that can be considered novel, and therefore for the chop.

This is a shame, because done correctly, for a proven symptomatic lesion the operation and labral surgery can be effective.

Nevertheless a fair few PCTs will not pay for the op, and therefore the treatment on the NHS is a dead end.

I recommend Prof Ernst Schilders ( http://www.londonhiparthroscopycentre.com/ ) who I have personally operated with for 6 months and seen him do perhaps 30-40 hip scopes.

and I recommend Richard Villar ( http://www.richardvillar.com/ ) who is similarly a trailblazer in the field of hip arthroscopy.

It is not an operation for somebody to have-a-go at, and because the newer labral techniques are dificult to learn you want a surgeon who is doing large volumes.

Costs should be directly obtainable from their business units, and private practice is just like any other business, ask for a price in a sensible manner and you will get a sensible answer.

Will.
Soft Tissue Knee Surgeon.

[KIPSTER]

Thank folks,

I really appreciate all the feedback.

I have numbers for:

Mohamed Aslam
Tim Board
Richard Villar
Damian Griffith

It's clear the NHS has cut back on these 3 hour operations which is a crime on itself but hey , that is how it's going to be.

And I just built up this pot for my new 911..........ah well, she's worth it!

[Autopilot]

The_Doc said:

and I recommend Richard Villar ( http://www.richardvillar.com/ ) who is similarly a trailblazer in the field of hip arthroscopy.

I can't recommend Mr Villar enough!! I've done martial arts all my life and when I was 27, a minor niggle eventually got worse and worse and stopped me training. After several months of physio, I went to a sports injury clinic who referred me to an orthopedic surgeon. The surgeon arranged for me to have some anti-inflammatory injections (using ultrasound to guide) in several areas of the hip. I was pain free for about 8 weeks, then the pain returned. The surgeon then said that he'd only consider surgery once I was 'really bad and could barely walk'. He also said that my martial arts career was over. The injury clinic that referred me weren't happy that I was no further forward in being pain free, so suggested they referred me to Richard Villar. I went to Cambridge for a consultation, and not only was his opinion of the MRI scans and X-rays I took with me very different to the previous surgeon (he said that my hip DIDN'T show lots of osteoarthritis), his outlook was very different.

He said that a 27 year old shouldn't have to suffer with hip pain, so recommended that as the MRI scans were inconclusive of what is causing the pain, the best solution is for use of arthroscopy to go in and have a look. A date was arranged and I went back in for surgery. When I came round after the operation, they showed me images they had taken of the damage in my hip and explained how they repaired it. He was also VERY clear that I didn't have a 'condition' like the previous surgeon said I did, I'd picked up an injury, it had been fixed, and that by listening to my body, I would be able to continue with sports when ready.

I'm still pain free 8 years later and am still training in the gym (I was back in the gym ..albeit carefully, about 3 weeks after the operation) and have recently started training in martial arts again and am fine.

Had I not seen Richard Villar, I'd still be in a lot of pain and would have given up on most of the things I enjoyed doing. He's a nice chap and has the right outlook for his patients, he wanted to help me and did a damned fine job.