How much does a hip replacement cost?

That’s hard to say — really hard to say. Researchers report in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine that only 16 percent of U.S. hospitals surveyed were able to say how much a hip operation would cost a potential patient when asked, and those that answered, quoted prices that differed by more than $100,000. When the hospital and the doctor were both contacted, it was possible to get a price 47 percent of the time.