Few surgeons know the price of implantable devices

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Few surgeons know the price of implantable devices

Researchers who surveyed 503 orthopedic surgeons found the doctors could only accurately estimate the price of implantable medical devices between 17 and 21 percent of the time. "My suspicion was that knowledge would be low, but I think we were all surprised by how little we knew about the price of the devices we were implanting," Dr. Kanu Okike told Reuters Health. He is now an orthopedic surgeon at the Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu. Over $150 billion is spent every year on medical devices in the U.S., Okike and his colleagues write in the journal Health Affairs.

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