URSL Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of URSL 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 URSL 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 URSL, 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

URSL (ureteroscopic stone removal) passes a thin telescope through the urethra and bladder into the ureter to break up and remove a stone, normally with a laser.

URSL is used for stones too large to pass by themselves, causing severe pain or infection, or blocking urine flow, and Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust names shockwave treatment, open surgery or waiting as alternatives.

It is normally done under general anaesthetic, with a laser or probe breaking the stone and small baskets removing the fragments.

The Bath leaflet states that the majority of people go home the same day, that kidney pain can last 24 to 72 hours and is helped by drinking plenty, and suggests not expecting to return to work within seven days.

A stent commonly causes discomfort and a frequent need to pass urine, and the stone not being cleared, infection or recurrence each affect between 1 in 10 and 1 in 50, with damage to the ureter in fewer than 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 URSL 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: size and position in the ureter.
• Method: laser or probe.
• Stent: commonly placed afterwards.
• Stay: normally a day case.

Confirm whether the Gurgaon estimate includes the surgeon, theatre, any catheter or stent, 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.

International patients apply online for India's e-Medical visa, and up to two family members can usually travel on e-Medical Attendant visas; confirm the current rules on the official Indian visa portal.