PCNL Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of PCNL 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 PCNL in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If your operation is planned, done by keyhole or a standard method, and you go home after a short stay, 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 you need open or robotic surgery, your condition is more complex, you stay longer or you choose a private room.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for PCNL, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Stents or catheters
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

PCNL (percutaneous nephrolithotomy) takes away large kidney stones through a small cut in the back, using a telescope passed directly into the kidney to break up and remove the stone.

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust says that PCNL is normally used for kidney stones larger than about 2 cm, or stones that other treatments have not cleared.

Under general anaesthetic a small cut is made in the back and a channel created into the kidney, and the stone is broken up and taken out through a telescope in an operation of about two to three hours.

University Hospitals Sussex reports a stay of about two to three days, with a drainage tube (nephrostomy) commonly left for one to two days and a return to work after two to four weeks.

It reports severe bleeding and injury to nearby organs each in fewer than 1 in 50, and the need for a second procedure in between 1 in 10 and 1 in 50.

Flying home: there is no aviation figure for this procedure, so book after the surgeon's review and ask how to lower clot risk on a long flight.

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

• Pre-operative tests: blood work, imaging and an anaesthetic assessment.
• Theatre and anaesthesia charges: mostly set by time in the operating room.
• Consultant fees: which differ from one hospital to the next.
• Type of operation: open, keyhole or robotic where there is a choice.
• Stone: normally over 2 cm.
• Anaesthesia: general.
• Nephrostomy tube: for one to two days.
• Stay: commonly two to three days.

Confirm whether the Gurgaon estimate includes the surgeon, theatre, any catheter or stent and its removal, the stay and follow-up tests.

Urology departments in Gurgaon's larger hospitals routinely provide endoscopic stone treatment and keyhole operations, and some offer robotic 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 sits on the south-western edge of Delhi, a short road transfer from Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is the usual arrival point for international patients.