Firstly:
In January, U.S. supermarket chain Hannaford Bros Co. began offering employees the option of getting hip and knee replacements at a hospital in Singapore. A hip replacement costs about $43,000 in the U.S. compared with $9,000 in Singapore, according to data from Planet Hospital, a medical tourism company.
"After the announcement, I got calls from several [U.S.] hospitals offering to match Singapore on pricing," says Peter Hayes, Hannaford's director of associate health and wellness.
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Secondly:
Merrill Goozner writes: The New England Journal of Medicine's lead study this week debunks the usefulness of arthroscopic surgery for aging people with arthritic knees.
Bottom line: The $5,000 operation provides no more relief than regular exercise and over-the-counter pain pills. A Washington Post story points out that about a third of the 950,000 arthroscopic knee surgeries done each year are for arthritis despite a 2002 study (deemed controversial by the orthopedists) showing it was no better than sham surgery for curing arthritic knees.
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