Osteotomy Cost in Chennai, India

The cost of an osteotomy in Chennai typically ranges from $510 to $4,900 USD (about ₹48,400 to ₹4.65 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for an osteotomy in Chennai is around $1,650 (about ₹1.57 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If a standard implant is used and you stay in a shared room, your bill is likely to be closer to $510 (about ₹48,400). It is likely to be nearer $4,900 (about ₹4.65 lakh) if a specialised implant is used, both sides are treated, it is a repeat operation or you choose a private room.

When comparing Chennai packages for an osteotomy, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Implants, plates or screws
• Physiotherapy
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

An osteotomy is an operation that cuts and reshapes or realigns a bone, most frequently around the knee or hip, to ease pain and correct deformity while keeping the natural joint.

A high tibial osteotomy realigns the shin bone below the knee for arthritis on the inner side, and a distal femoral osteotomy realigns the thigh bone above the knee, frequently for knock knees.

Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust outlines knee osteotomy as a way of keeping the natural joint, frequently seen as buying time before a joint replacement. It is offered chiefly to younger, active people whose damage is limited to one part of the joint.

Recovery depends on the bone treated, and after a knee osteotomy the trust outlines crutches for approximately four to six weeks, longer after femoral osteotomy, with overall recovery of approximately four to six months.

General risks include blood clots, slow bone healing and fracture, reported in approximately 1 to 5 in 100.

Fitness to fly: aviation guidance has no single figure for bone and joint surgery, but leg operations make clots on long flights more likely, so ask about prevention; the UK Civil Aviation Authority's medical guidance suggests 24 to 48 hours after a plaster cast.

In Chennai, the price of an osteotomy is generally built from these parts:

• Assessment before surgery: X-rays, scans and a fitness check.
• Theatre and anaesthetic: billed largely on operating time.
• Implant: the make and model of joint, plate or screws.
• Bone: knee, hip, foot or other.
• Fixation: plates and screws or other.
• Stay: generally short.
• Physiotherapy: for a number of months.

Ask each Chennai hospital for an itemised costing showing any implant, surgeon, theatre, stay and physiotherapy, so offers can be compared fairly.

Orthopaedic departments in Chennai handle joint replacement, arthroscopy and trauma, generally with physiotherapists on site so that you start moving soon after surgery.

Hospitals in Chennai can hold NABH accreditation, India's national quality standard set by a board of the Quality Council of India and itself accredited by ISQua, and the NABH website shows whether an accreditation is still valid.

Joint Commission International (JCI) accredits a number of Indian hospitals, and its public directory lets you check whether a Chennai hospital on your shortlist is currently included.

Chennai was called Madras until the Tamil Nadu government changed the name in 1996, so older documents and some hospital paperwork may still use the earlier name.