I didn't know how much it would cost till I got the bills and added them up. I have an HMO insurance so I just had to pay a $250 deductable for the surgery/hospital stay and other stuff. I think I added mine up an it was close to $75,000 but I was in the hospital from Mon-Fri instead of Mon-Wed so that made it more expensive plus the repaired a hital hernia once they got in there too. The $75000 was the surgeon's bill, anstheic (sp?) bill, hospital bill (OR and hospital room and all the stuff I used in surgery and after). My insurance didn't pay the total $75000 more like $45000 I think and I don't have to pay the difference.
You could ask your surgery what the cost will be and then call your hospital and ask them what the estimated cost would be.

i honestly have no clue..my insurance has a max of 10000 that they will pay so i have out of pockets of almost 4000 to cover..but thats not that bad considering others..

I find that what the insurance company gets billed varies really wildly. I've seen people whose insurance company was billed in almost a quarter of a million dollars! Of course, insurance paid a fraction of that as their negotiated "customary and reasonable" rate.

My self-pay costs were $17000 but my program typically bills insurance at twice that. If your insurance has an upper limit, be sure your program knows that and make sure they don't screw you over with how they bill things!

I can tell you that it's cheaper in the south for some reason. We are Native Texans, but were living up north for a few years. I knew I wanted someone in Dallas or Houston to take care of me.....cash pay in Milwaukee for the sleeve was 25k - in Dallas, I paid $12,500. Dr. Davidson has been voted a 'Top Doc' for seventeen years and his facility has the Center of Excellence stamp of approval. I have NO idea why it is less, but I got curious and started checking in TN, GA and Louisiana....all were in the same range as my doctor. I am pretty sure it costs more if insurance is used, but you should have more than enough, way more! Good luck!

It's weird how much the price is regional, stratusphr. My doc was one of the pioneers of the surgery... been doing it since 2000/2001. So you'd think he'd charge top prices to match his experience, right? Nope. He charges the same as everyone else in the area and definitely way less than 25,000. A sleeve is around 17,000 here in the SF Bay Area and the cost of living here is much higher than in the midwest too so who knows why it was so much up/over there.