Adam’s Heart Valve Surgery Blog

Over the past twenty years, the costs of health care and insurance has skyrocketed. According to the United Stated Census Bureau, over 45 million people, or 15.3% of Americans, did not have any form of health insurance in 2007.

I was lucky. I had pretty good health insurance when I had my aortic valve replacement operation at USC Medical Center. However, I regularly email back-and-forth with heart valve disease patients that (i) need heart valve replacements and (ii) are searching for cost information (or estimates) for valve surgery without insurance coverage.

Sandra recently asked me, “Is there some kind of health care cost estimator for heart valve replacement that I could use?”

Unfortunately, I do not have a cost estimator for heart valve replacement. In fact, I just tried to locate an online tool to better understand the medical care costs of valve replacement and did not find anything.

However, if you would like additional information about the costs of heart surgery, click this link about heart surgery costs (estimates).

And, if by chance, you come across a tool for estimating heart valve replacement costs, please Leave A Reply below and let us all know.

Keep on tickin!

Adam Pick is a double, heart valve surgery patient and author of The Patient’s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery, a unique book which integrates the clinical facts of heart valve surgery with the personal experiences of an actual heart valve surgery patient. To learn more about Adam and his heart valve surgery book, click here.

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