Adhesion Cost in Germany

The cost of adhesion surgery in Germany typically ranges from $7,000 to $25,000 USD, depending on the hospital, city, and type of procedure.

Adhesion surgery (adhesiolysis) divides bands of scar tissue inside the abdomen or pelvis that join organs together and cause pain or bowel blockage. In Germany, the total depends on:

• Cause and extent of adhesions: and how many areas are affected.
• Keyhole or open surgery: the approach used.
• Planned or emergency surgery: for bowel obstruction.
• Hospital stay: depending on the bowel.

Guts UK explains that adhesions form in almost everyone after abdominal surgery, but only a few people have problems. Other causes include endometriosis, pelvic infection, inflammatory bowel disease and other infections.

Symptoms can include bloating, pain, bowel obstruction and fertility problems. There is no blood test, and a CT scan is often used.

Bowel obstruction from adhesions is often managed without surgery at first, with surgery considered if it does not settle within about 3 days.

New adhesions can form after surgery to divide them, and there is no medicine that prevents them.

International patients are usually treated in Germany as self-paying patients: the hospital reviews the medical reports, sends a cost estimate and asks for an advance payment before admission, then settles the final bill after discharge.

Inpatient hospital care in Germany is billed under the German DRG system, which depends on the main diagnosis, other diagnoses and the procedures carried out, so the final amount is known only after the stay.

Patients insured in another EU country need an S2 form from their own insurer for planned treatment in Germany, as the EHIC is intended for unplanned care.