Osteotomy Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of an osteotomy in Gurgaon typically ranges from $620 to $6,000 USD (about ₹58,800 to ₹5.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for an osteotomy in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 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 $620 (about ₹58,800). It is likely to be nearer $6,000 (about ₹5.69 lakh) if a specialised implant is used, both sides are treated, it is a repeat operation or you choose a private room.

When comparing Gurgaon 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 commonly 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, commonly for knock knees.

Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust describes knee osteotomy as a way of keeping the natural joint, commonly seen as buying time before a joint replacement. It is offered mostly 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 describes crutches for about four to six weeks, longer after femoral osteotomy, with overall recovery of about four to six months.

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

Flying home: aviation guidance sets no single wait for bone and joint operations, but leg surgery makes clots on long flights more likely, so ask how to prevent them; UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance suggests 24 to 48 hours after a plaster cast.

A Gurgaon quote for an osteotomy is normally made up of these items:

• Tests before the operation: X-rays, other scans and an anaesthetic check.
• Theatre and anaesthetic: charged mainly by operating time.
• Implant choice: brand and type of joint, plate or screws.
• Rehabilitation: physiotherapy on the ward and once you leave.
• Bone: knee, hip, foot or other.
• Fixation: plates and screws or other.
• Stay: normally short.
• Physiotherapy: for a number of months.

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

Orthopaedic departments in Gurgaon cover joint replacement, arthroscopy and trauma, usually with in-house physiotherapy so that patients start moving soon after surgery.

NABH, the hospital accreditation board of the Quality Council of India whose standards carry ISQua accreditation, sets the national benchmark for hospitals, and its online directory shows whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is still current.

Gurgaon is part of Delhi NCR, where India's first hospital to gain Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation did so in 2005, and JCI publishes a searchable list of the organisations it currently accredits.

Gurgaon was officially renamed Gurugram by the Haryana government in 2016, so hospital letters, maps and taxi apps may use either name.