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The price of a diathermy device can range from. USD $6,000 to $25,000. Because many insurance com-. panies do not provide reimbursement for diathermy. treatments, insufficient revenue is likely to be gener-. ated to cover the cost of acquiring the equipment. Prior to the last 15 years, 7-11,17-25 little research evi-. dence of therapeutic benefit from diathermy existed.
1 According to a study on cervical cancer treatment costs by the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, total cervical cancer treatment costs for Medicaid recipients, for the first six months after diagnosis, ranged from just under $4,000 to more than $45,000, depending on whether and how far the cancer had spread. A study published in the journal Gynecologic Oncology reports that a commonly used treatment for cervical cancer, the chemotherapy drug Cisplatin combined with radiation, typically costs about $40,000 total, while adding the drug Gemcitabine increased the total cost to more than $60,000.