About our prices
What the price on a treatment page covers
The most common complaint about surgery in Nigeria is not the operation. It is the bill that arrives afterwards, three times the figure you were told. Our pages publish the price up front so you can plan, and this page explains exactly what that number means.
A fixed price is one number for the whole operation
Where a page shows a fixed, all-in price, it covers the people and the place, not just the surgeon's fee:
- The surgeon and their assistant
- The anaesthetist
- Theatre time and the standard consumables for the operation
- Your bed for the expected length of stay
- Routine medication while you are admitted
- Your follow-up review after the operation
Every treatment page lists its own inclusions in full, because they differ: a joint replacement includes the implant and physiotherapy on the ward, a day case under local anaesthetic has no overnight stay to include.
What is usually not in the price
- The first consultation and the tests or scans that confirm you need the operation
- Treating another condition found during work-up, such as uncontrolled diabetes or an infection, before it is safe to operate
- Medication to take home after discharge
- Care for a complication that needs intensive care or a return to theatre
- Travel and accommodation if you are coming from outside Lagos
What can change it
A published price is for the standard case. Each page names the things that move its price, and the common ones are:
- More nights in hospital than the operation normally needs
- Both sides done at once, or a revision of earlier surgery
- A premium or custom implant chosen above the standard specification
- Blood beyond the units already included
- General anaesthetic where local was planned, or a keyhole operation converted to open
- Complexity found at examination or in theatre, such as previous surgery or a difficult fracture
None of this is sprung on you afterwards. After your consultation you receive a written quote that names where the operation takes place and costs anything outside the standard case, before you agree to it.
A worked example: total knee replacement
Total Knee Replacement is published at ₦5,500,000, all in.
Included
- Surgeon and assistant fees
- Anaesthetist and theatre time
- A standard implant
- Your ward bed for the expected stay
- Routine post-operative medication on the ward
- Inpatient physiotherapy from day one
- Routine post-operative X-ray
- Follow-up review at six weeks
Changes the price
- A stay in intensive care longer than two days
- Choosing an implant above the standard specification
- Unplanned complexity found in theatre, such as significant deformity or previous hardware
- Both knees done in one admission, which is priced separately
"From" prices and written quotes
Some operations, cosmetic surgery especially, depend so much on your body and the result you want that one fixed number would mislead. Those pages show a starting price marked "from", or no price at all and a consultation fee instead, with the surgeon writing your price after examining you. We would rather show no number than one we could not stand behind.
HMO cover and paying in cash
Published prices are what you pay in cash, in Naira. If you have an HMO plan, what it covers depends on your plan and needs the HMO's authorisation first. The treatment page explains how that works, and many pages list itemised prices for exactly this.
How we keep prices honest
Every price on the site carries a code that traces it to its source, and an automated check fails the build if a published price has drifted from that source or makes no sense next to the others. The full method is in our editorial policy. If you are quoted more than the published price for the standard case, tell us.