How much will it cost for an ACL surgery without insurance, and is there a way that I wont have to pay for it out of my own pocket.

Oscar, I have all the numbers there and the surgery alone is 2500, but you probably want anasthesea also, makes another 2000 and they cannot do it in your driveway, so you get to pay for the surgery room as well, another 2000 in my case..

I'm sorry you tore your ACL. I did it on Easter Sunday this year, because I did not listen to my inner voice (to stop skiing for the day). I also tore the meniscus as I wrote above..

If you do not have insurance, good luck. Here in California the county will pay for things but only if it is threatening to lose of life or a limb. Since your leg is not going to fall off without an ACL, I think my county would not pay you. But it might be different in your area - you did not state this. Now, 6 months after the surgery the knee is already pretty strong but nowhere near where it was before. I exercise in the gym for at least 1 hour at least on 5 days a week, afterwards still icing. I feel it was the right decision though and I would recommend everyone, if you want to do it ever, do it today and not tomorrow.

My knee's MRI cost $1200, in California also. You did not mention that price in your article. The meniscus was found to be fine in the MRI but now I am still in pain. It has been 18 months.

great information

i just got quoted $3,000 - $5,000 for my after insurance out of pocket expense (south carolina)

Oh my, this is the most interesting info i have heard........I am scheduled to get my surgery tommorrow and they said i had a torn main Ligament in the Knee from a hard fall on the right leg from a tall fence.........but I have insurance but they pay After I have met the thousand dollar deductible and then i will still have to pay 20 Percent more of the costs after that has been met............up to $3,000 and then they start to pay all expenses after that...........so I am not sure how much as they will not tell me at the facility before the surgery. I guess I really dont' care how much it costs since I want my leg back but i don't want to be broke, I have a mortgage and bills to pay and my short term disablitity claim has not been approved yet so my job is only covering up to 40 percent of my paycheck now..........that check was less than my check when i first started working over 30 years ago at 3.35 per hour!!!!! so they need to get that claim approved so i can get the other 60 percent otherwise my bills are going to be out of hand!!!!! I have always paid on time and my credit is good!!!!!!!

I live in Canada and had ACL repair and removal of the meniscus due to excessive damage. Stayed overnight in the hospital and am undergoing physio. Total cost for everything including physio is ZERO thanks to our Canadian Health Care System. I did have to pay $200 for a brace that is partially covered by my employers health plan.

my daughter tore her acl in a power puff football game at school .norton hospital in kentucky charged us $31000.00 the anisteoligyst $2400.00 mri $1500.00 Doctor $3200.00 theripy $900.00 the school insurance paid $1255.00 left me holding the bag for $39000.00 i would love to have more info on this subject kim blessitt my e mail is blessittmkt@alltel.net

Hi there,

Good question.

I don't know the actual cost of the surgery, but my out of pocket co-pay with Kaiser Permanente in Colorado has been around

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$150.00 - Surgery
$40.00 - $4.00 X 10 Days - Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) machine rental
$20.00 - $10.00 X 2 prescriptions of pain killer medicine (Percocet)
$100.00 - $25.00 X 4 Office Visits (1st Visit, Pre-Operative, Post-Operative X 2)
$240.00 - $15.00 X 16 Physical Therapy Sessions
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$550.00

Does anyone know the cost of a meniscus surgery, cause I've been quoted $2500 for a simple meniscus surgery. I have no insurance by the way... Thank you.

to surf-eat-sleep:

the 2500 for the 'simple' meniscus surgery is probably not the whole cost. You saw in my example up there how they originally asked 2500 for the ACL/ meniscus repair .. but then there were all the other costs..
An insurance can always bring down the price, I hope you have it.

hey, my acl surgery costs came out to 33,000. i had it done at U Penn. I had the cadaver graft too. That might be why the cost is ridiculous.

hey u peen surgery person good to hear i am not the only 1 with a big bill according to nortons charge sheet the graft tindon cost $10900.00 for that piece of donated tindon.sure would like to sell them some mussel i no i dont use them all.

if your graft cost 10,900 how much was the total costs of surgery including graft and hospital stay? and where did you find nortons charge sheet?

norton hospital 3 hours outpatient total with graft $31145.50
mri $1551.00
reading mri $152.00
anesthesiology $2340.00
surgeon $3330.80
physical therapy $1000.00

This was outpatient there was no stay she was only there 3 hours total I got these prices straight off the bills they say I owe even though my daughter was hurt in a school sponsored event in which the school was collecting admission