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You’re mental if you think you can get a knee replacement for $12k in the us. People who make one trip to the Ed here, with insurance, for something simple like an infection end up with bills over $20k for little more than what ends up being an ultrasound, A lab test and a script for antibiotics.

$15.5k at Surgery Centre Oklahoma for a total knee replacement:

https://surgerycenterok.com/

EDs don’t have competition like outpatient surgical centres do.

I don't think he read my comment in full, where I specifically mentioned that it would only cost that much at an ambulatory surgical center, linked to a source, and accepted that it would definitely cost more in a hospital.

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