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Open Heart Surgery. Cost: $324,000. With heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. at 26%, open heart surgery is a more common procedure than may be expected. Part of the high cost of open heart surgery is because it's often an urgent medical procedure that is usually followed by complications.
Stanford handled more heart transplant surgeries in 2015 than any other hospital in the country except one, and our surgeons handled more than 1,000 major cases for the first time ever in a single year. With a larger department, we have nearly doubled the number of annual surgeries we perform since 2013.