An Assessment of the Economic Feasibility of Selected Surgeries in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department under Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Table 1

Total package cost of each surgery.

	Abdominal hysterectomy	Caesarean section	Vaginal hysterectomy
Bed cost	2,675	2,229	2,675
Consumables	1,461	1,747	2,056
Electricity and AC	188	163	150
Equipment cost	1,821	1,156	1,244
Medicine	6,341	4,415	4,874
Diagnostics	1,437	604	1,089
Blood bank materials	298	314	876
Doctor’s fee	971	872	951
Manpower cost-OT	1,529	1,274	1,052
Manpower cost-nursing	1,549	1,549	1,549
Indirect cost	4,641	3,949	4,549
Others	928	1,508	743
Total (₹)	23,839	19,780	21,808