Why endometriosis needs more than a one-time surgery quote
Endometriosis involves endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus and is different from an endometrial polyp inside the uterine cavity.
Depending on lesion location, adhesions, ovarian endometrioma, pain and pregnancy plans, care may involve medication, uterus-preserving excision or ablation, postoperative maintenance and repeated follow-up in different combinations.
A single admission estimate can therefore omit medicine after discharge, outpatient reviews, imaging, tests, fertility-preservation planning and a retreatment scenario that the patient wants to budget explicitly.
This South Korea calculator places an itemised provider quote and a confirmed prescription or follow-up schedule on the same one-year and three-year timeline.
Every editable price begins at KRW 0, so a nationwide average is never presented as a guaranteed personal price.
The result is a cash-planning estimate, not a diagnosis, procedure or medicine recommendation, pregnancy or ovarian-reserve prediction, recurrence forecast, benefit decision or insurance claim result.
Rapidly worsening symptoms come before budgeting
Seek prompt medical assessment for severe pain or bleeding, faintness, breathing difficulty, fever, rapid deterioration, or pain and bleeding when pregnancy is possible.
A cost tool cannot identify the cause or urgency of symptoms and must never be used to delay care.
Why there is no universal procedure code or price preset
HIRA's KDRG Classification Book Version 4.7i, publication registration G000EV3-2025-174, is a current 2026 classification reference rather than a fee guarantee.
Uterine, ovarian and adnexal operations are distributed across different groups according to approach and the organs and procedures involved.
Endometriosis can involve peritoneal lesions, ovarian endometrioma, adhesions, bowel or urinary structures and concurrent surgery, so one shared code cannot safely become a complete national price.
The selected lesion treatment and approach therefore change consultation context only, while all money comes from the user's itemised quote.
Medication-led care
Use the actual monthly patient payment and prescribed duration. Do not infer a product, dose or schedule from the page.
Excision or ablation
Record the clinician-confirmed lesion plan, then verify which anaesthesia, pathology, adhesiolysis and concurrent procedures are included.
Robot-assisted surgery
Robot selection never creates a non-covered price or an insurance payment. Enter only provider-classified lines.
Ovarian endometrioma
Discuss ovarian function and future pregnancy plans. The calculator cannot predict reserve or fertility outcomes.
Bowel or urinary involvement
Confirm whether another specialty and a concurrent organ procedure are included in the quote and follow-up schedule.
Hysterectomy included
Move that portion to the hysterectomy planning scope instead of treating it as a uterus-preserving lesion procedure.
Worked example: KRW 6,260,000 in year 1 and KRW 9,580,000 over three years
This fictional audit vector demonstrates the formulas and is not an average Korean endometriosis price.
Assume an initial ordinary inpatient covered gross amount of KRW 5,000,000, a KRW 200,000 full-patient-payment line, a KRW 1,500,000 non-covered line and KRW 300,000 of initial assessment patient payments.
Medicine is KRW 80,000 per month for 36 months, and follow-up is KRW 100,000 per visit with four visits in year 1 and two visits in each later year.
Add a KRW 2,000,000 fertility-preservation quote, no retreatment in year 1, one KRW 1,200,000 event within three years, KRW 400,000 of non-medical recovery cost, KRW 500,000 of confirmed year-1 insurance and KRW 200,000 for years 2–3.
Worked one-year and three-year endometriosis treatment cost example| Calculation stage | Year 1 | Three years | Interpretation |
|---|
| Initial patient medical cost | KRW 3,000,000 | KRW 3,000,000 | Initial event counted once |
| Medicine | KRW 960,000 | KRW 2,880,000 | 12 months versus 36 months |
| Follow-up | KRW 400,000 | KRW 800,000 | Four versus eight total visits |
| Fertility preservation | KRW 2,000,000 | KRW 2,000,000 | One quote counted once |
| User retreatment scenario | KRW 0 | KRW 1,200,000 | Zero events versus one event |
| Medical cost before insurance | KRW 6,360,000 | KRW 9,880,000 | Period-specific medical spending |
| Applied confirmed insurance | − KRW 500,000 | − KRW 700,000 | Capped at medical cost |
| Non-medical recovery cost | + KRW 400,000 | + KRW 400,000 | One initial recovery assumption |
| Final net burden | KRW 6,260,000 | KRW 9,580,000 | Cash-planning result |
With a 10% reserve, the year-1 range is KRW 5,634,000–6,886,000 and the three-year range is KRW 8,622,000–10,538,000.
Medicine, follow-up and retreatment total KRW 4,880,000, or 49.4% of three-year medical cost.
Removing the one user-defined retreatment event produces a KRW 8,380,000 three-year net burden, so the scenario increment is KRW 1,200,000.
That increment is sensitivity analysis and says nothing about whether retreatment will be needed.