Is coronary artery surgery so expensive?
Krause, B.L.; Gibbs, D.R.; Brown, A.H.
New Zealand Medical Journal 86(602): 570-572
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446 PMID: 417277 Document Number: 118867
Severe angina may lead to complete invalidism, with reliance on social security payments and accumulated savings. The average cost of this situation to the patient is $4-6000 pa and to the State $3-4000 pa. Reputedly expensive cardiac operations are cheaper, at under $2000, than unoperated invalidism, and thus rapidly repay their cost in addition to their non-financial attributes.
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