Man-Killer #2: Cancer. Cancer accounts for 22.5 percent of all male deaths, making it the second leading cause of mortality for them, according to CDC data. Each year, over 311,000 men die from the conditionâthatâs over three times the number of those killed by the #3 cause of death for men, accidental injury.
According to our 2015 Weight Loss Surgery Cost Survey, the cost of bariatric surgery without insurance in the United States ranges from $6,000 to $30,000 for the four most common procedures: gastric sleeve surgery, gastric bypass surgery, gastric banding (lap band surgery), and the gastric balloon procedure. Gastric bypass surgery costs $24,000 on average in the United States (note that it was relatively common for gastric bypass and gastric sleeve to be quoted at the same cost, although more often than not, gastric sleeve was the lower cost procedure).
On average, surgery can cost about $25,000 to $30,000 including consultation fees. This is normally for patients who have to be hospitalized for 3 to 4 days. If surgery is performed under general or local anesthesia, there will be an additional cost of $4,000 to $6000.