South Korea Endometriosis Surgery and Long-Term Treatment Cost Calculator

Plan year-1 and 3-year uterus-preserving endometriosis care from an itemised Korean surgery quote, medicine, follow-up, fertility preservation, a user-defined retreatment scenario and confirmed insurance.

Enter the care path, itemised quote and long-term plan

Every price starts at KRW 0. Enter only the path and amounts confirmed by your clinician, provider, pharmacy and insurer.

1. Management path discussed with the clinician

This selection changes consultation prompts only. It never determines the need for surgery, medicine, effectiveness or price.

2. Lesion treatment and surgical approach
days

This is a consultation note and never multiplies room or companion-care costs.

Quote-check focusSeparate the operation quote from medicine, outpatient reviews, tests and imaging after discharge.
3. Initial operation and assessment quote

The selected covered-care rate applies only to the initial covered surgery gross amount. Full-patient-payment, non-covered and already patient-paid assessment lines are not multiplied again.

Current planning share: 20%Applied only to the initial covered surgery gross amount.

Enter the covered gross before patient share, not the copay itself.

Enter the amount identified as 100% patient payment on the quote.

Include robot, material or room lines only when the provider classifies them here.

Enter imaging, blood work and consultations already quoted as patient payments.

4. Medicine, follow-up, fertility preservation and retreatment scenario

The calculator never recommends medicine or retreatment. Transcribe the confirmed prescription, schedule and quote.

months

0–36 months. The first-year result includes at most 12 months.

visits
visits

Do not duplicate the same quote when combining an egg-freezing or fertility-treatment budget.

This is a 0–5 user-defined scenario, not a predicted recurrence rate.

visits
visits

This is a 0–5 user-defined scenario, not a predicted recurrence rate.

5. Recovery cost, confirmed insurance and reserve

Companion care, travel, lodging and net income interruption after paid leave.

Use insurer-confirmed amounts only. Deductions are capped at medical cost.

Use insurer-confirmed amounts only. Deductions are capped at medical cost.

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Year-1 and 3-year treatment budget

Year-1 net burden₩0Planning range: ₩0₩0Monthly average reserve: ₩0
3-year net burden₩0Planning range: ₩0₩0Monthly average reserve: ₩0
Initial patient medical cost₩0
3-year medicine, follow-up and retreatment₩0
Long-term share of 3-year medical cost0%
Retreatment scenario increment₩0

Year-1 cost breakdown

Initial covered-care copay
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Full-patient-payment line
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Non-covered line
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Initial assessment
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Medicine · 12 months
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Follow-up · 4 visits
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Fertility preservation
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User-defined retreatment · 0 visits
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Medical cost before insurance
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Applied confirmed insurance
− ₩0
Non-medical recovery cost
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Final net burden
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3-year cost breakdown

Initial covered-care copay
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Full-patient-payment line
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Non-covered line
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Initial assessment
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Medicine · 12 months
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Follow-up · 8 visits
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Fertility preservation
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User-defined retreatment · 0 visits
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Medical cost before insurance
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Applied confirmed insurance
− ₩0
Non-medical recovery cost
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Final net burden
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Provider and clinician checklist

These prompts reduce quote omissions and duplication. They are not diagnostic or treatment recommendations.

  • Does the quote preserve the uterus, or does it include hysterectomy or another organ procedure?
  • Which anaesthesia, pathology, adhesiolysis, ovarian, bowel or urinary procedure, room and material lines are included?
  • What are the monthly medicine payment, planned duration and follow-up schedule after discharge?

Check these boundaries before using the result

  • The KDCA reference that roughly 40–50% may experience recurrence within five years is not used as a personal probability or cost multiplier. Only your own retreatment scenario is added.
  • Endometriosis alone does not automatically trigger a special-case copay. The ordinary inpatient 20% is a planning comparison for the matching covered surgery gross line, subject to provider and NHIS confirmation.
  • Medicine, approach, hospital days and follow-up counts are inputs, not treatment recommendations. Use the prescription and itemised quote.
  • Enter only insurer-confirmed payments. The calculator caps them at medical cost but does not make a claim decision.
  • The operation quote is zero. Until an itemised quote is entered, the result may contain recurring care only.

Related calculators

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.

Keep the scope separate from nearby women's-health calculators

Hysterectomy cost

The hysterectomy calculator begins after removal of the uterus is planned and compares vaginal, laparoscopic, open and robot-assisted approaches and surgical extent. This page is limited to uterus-preserving lesion care and the multi-year medicine and follow-up cash flow.

Ovarian cyst surgery cost

The ovarian-cyst calculator focuses on one ovarian or adnexal operation and recovery. This page adds endometriosis medicine, repeated follow-up and a user-defined retreatment scenario over time.

Endometrial polyp hysteroscopy

An endometrial polyp is a local projection from the lining inside the uterine cavity and can be assessed or removed hysteroscopically. Endometriosis is a separate disease involving endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus.

Fertility treatment or egg freezing

The fertility-preservation field connects one quote already discussed with the care team to the whole endometriosis budget. Eligibility, support and cycle design belong in the dedicated fertility-treatment or egg-freezing planner, and the same quote must not be counted twice.

The verified 2026 Korean rules and clinical boundaries

Ordinary inpatient covered-care planning share: 20%

The current National Health Insurance Act Enforcement Decree record checked through the Korean National Law Information OPEN API is law ID 002813, MST 283469, effective February 19, 2026.
Article 19 delegates patient cost-sharing rates and amounts to Annex 2, whose verified identifier is 17976571.
The calculator uses 20% only as an ordinary inpatient planning share on the initial covered surgery gross amount entered by the user.
Eligibility, Medical Aid or reduced-status rules, meals, room differences, selective benefits, full-patient-payment items, medicine and the actual claim may differ, so a 0–100% provider- or NHIS-confirmed mode is also available.

Non-covered price disclosure and the provider quote

Article 45 of the current Medical Service Act requires a medical institution to disclose non-covered treatment prices so that patients or guardians can readily understand them.
The verified record is law ID 001788, MST 285327, effective April 7, 2026.
HIRA's public non-covered price information is a comparison starting point, but it cannot determine one personal total that includes lesion location, adhesions, ovarian, bowel or urinary procedures, robot assistance, materials and room choices.
That is why this planner starts at zero and asks for the provider's covered gross, full-patient-payment and non-covered buckets separately.

A five-year recurrence reference is not a personal probability

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency health-information page on endometriosis was updated May 27, 2026 and explains that roughly 40–50% may experience recurrence within five years after surgery.
The same material describes individualised decisions that consider patient characteristics and future pregnancy plans and warns that ovarian-endometrioma surgery can affect ovarian function even when the cyst alone is removed.
This calculator never multiplies a quote by 40–50% and never converts the reference into a personal recurrence or reoperation probability.
It adds only the retreatment count and patient payment that the user chooses after discussing a scenario with the care team.

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.

Map each input to the itemised quote and care schedule

Endometriosis surgery and long-term treatment cost input guide
Input groupAmount or schedule to enterBoundary to preserveMaximum horizon
Initial covered surgeryCovered gross before patient shareKeep separate from full-patient-payment and non-covered linesOne event
Initial separate linesFull patient payment, non-covered and assessment patient paymentDo not multiply amounts that are already patient paymentsOne event
MedicineMonthly patient payment and prescribed monthsThe prescription and clinician plan control product, dose and duration36 months
Follow-upPatient payment per visit and year-1/later annual countsFollow-up can continue after medicine ends and is not shortened automatically3 years
Fertility preservationOne whole-plan quote discussed with the care teamDo not duplicate an egg-freezing or fertility-treatment resultOne event
RetreatmentPatient payment per event and year-1/three-year countA user scenario rather than a personal recurrence probability5 events

Planned inpatient days

The day count is a consultation note and never multiplies room, companion-care or income-interruption costs.
Enter only non-medical net cost that remains after checking what the hospital quote and paid leave already cover.

Confirmed insurance payments

Use only an amount confirmed by the insurer for the relevant period and items.
The calculator caps the deduction at medical cost and never applies it to companion care, travel, lodging or income interruption.

The one-year and three-year formulas

Initial patient medical cost

Covered surgery copay = initial covered surgery gross × 20% or confirmed rate

Initial patient medical cost = covered copay + full-patient-payment line + non-covered line + initial assessment payment

Recurring care

Medicine cost = monthly patient payment × planned months inside the horizon

Follow-up cost = patient payment per visit × visits inside the horizon

Retreatment cost = patient payment per event × user-defined events

Final net burden and range

Medical cost for a horizon equals the initial patient medical cost plus medicine, follow-up, fertility preservation and user-defined retreatment inside that period.
Year 1 deducts only the confirmed year-1 insurance payment, while the three-year result can deduct the confirmed year-1 and years-2-to-3 total, always capped at medical cost.
Net non-medical recovery cost is then added, and the selected variation reserve creates the lower and upper planning range.
The three-year monthly average divides net burden by 36 and is a saving pace, not a claim that bills arrive evenly each month.

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 stageYear 1Three yearsInterpretation
Initial patient medical costKRW 3,000,000KRW 3,000,000Initial event counted once
MedicineKRW 960,000KRW 2,880,00012 months versus 36 months
Follow-upKRW 400,000KRW 800,000Four versus eight total visits
Fertility preservationKRW 2,000,000KRW 2,000,000One quote counted once
User retreatment scenarioKRW 0KRW 1,200,000Zero events versus one event
Medical cost before insuranceKRW 6,360,000KRW 9,880,000Period-specific medical spending
Applied confirmed insurance− KRW 500,000− KRW 700,000Capped at medical cost
Non-medical recovery cost+ KRW 400,000+ KRW 400,000One initial recovery assumption
Final net burdenKRW 6,260,000KRW 9,580,000Cash-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.

Step-by-step use

  1. Choose the current management path. Select medication-led care, uterus-preserving surgery plus medicine, or surgery-led care according to the clinician discussion.
  2. Record lesion treatment and approach. Excision, ablation, laparoscopic, open and robot-assisted selections organise questions but never create prices.
  3. Split the initial quote. Enter the covered gross before copay separately from full-patient-payment, non-covered and already patient-paid assessment amounts.
  4. Turn recurring care into a schedule. Enter monthly medicine and months, then the follow-up payment per visit and year-1/later counts.
  5. Add optional confirmed planning items. Include a fertility-preservation quote and only the retreatment events that you explicitly want to model.
  6. Apply recovery cost and confirmed insurance last. Keep medical reimbursement separate from non-medical household costs and compare both horizons.

Practical planning scenarios

Reviewing a preoperative quote

Check that the planning rate touches only the covered gross line and identify where robot, material, room, anaesthesia, pathology, adhesiolysis and concurrent procedures appear. Never copy both a total and its itemised components into separate fields.

Preparing cash flow after discharge

Add medicine, visits, tests, travel and net income interruption to the initial bill. Use the monthly average as a saving target while remembering that surgery and other large items occur at specific dates.

Connecting fertility-preservation planning

Enter one quote only after discussing ovarian function and pregnancy plans with the relevant clinicians. Remove the same quote when combining this output with a separate egg-freezing or fertility-treatment budget.

Comparing retreatment sensitivity

Create explicit zero-event, one-event and two-event cases instead of converting the KDCA population reference into a personal probability. Compare the three-year difference as a reserve decision, not a clinical forecast.

Tips and limitations

  • Ask for an itemised estimate that separates covered gross, full patient payment and non-covered amounts instead of relying on a procedure name alone.
  • Confirm lesion location, adhesions and any ovarian, bowel or urinary concurrent procedure because they can change both the quote and recovery plan.
  • Use the actual patient payment under your prescription and benefit classification, not an online medicine price or a product assumed by the calculator.
  • Enter follow-up separately because reviews and imaging may continue after the planned medicine duration ends.
  • Do not estimate insurance payment from product generation or plan name alone; enter only the amount confirmed for the relevant item and period.
  • Compare explicit retreatment scenarios and never describe the result as a prediction of recurrence, reoperation or treatment success.
  • If hysterectomy is part of the plan, review that portion in the dedicated hysterectomy calculator rather than hiding it inside a uterus-preserving quote.

Frequently asked questions

Does every endometriosis operation have a 20% patient share?

No. Twenty percent is an ordinary inpatient planning comparison for the covered gross line. Non-covered, full-patient-payment, selectively rated, room, meal and medicine lines and patient eligibility can differ, so provider and NHIS confirmation controls.

Does selecting robot-assisted surgery create a non-covered amount?

No. The selection changes consultation context only. Enter a robot-related amount only after the provider identifies its benefit classification and price.

Should I multiply retreatment cost by the KDCA 40–50% reference?

No. That is a population-level reference, not a personal recurrence probability. The calculator adds only the event count and patient payment you explicitly enter.

Must fertility-preservation cost be included?

No. Enter it only when the relevant clinicians have discussed a real plan and quote. The tool cannot determine need, ovarian reserve or pregnancy outcome.

Why is there no medicine selector?

Medicine category, benefit status, dosing, duration and cautions vary by prescription. The calculator avoids prescribing by accepting only the actual monthly patient payment and planned months.

How are insurance payments applied across the horizons?

Year 1 uses the confirmed year-1 amount. Three years uses the confirmed year-1 amount plus the years-2-to-3 total. Each deduction is capped at medical cost, and the insurer remains the decision maker.

Is the three-year monthly average an expected monthly bill?

No. It is the three-year net burden divided by 36 as a reserve pace. Surgery, fertility preservation and retreatment can create large payments at particular dates, so review the breakdown and range too.

Official sources and update boundaries

Recheck the calculator whenever covered-care rates, non-covered disclosure rules, medicine pricing or authorisation, HIRA classification or KDCA guidance changes.
Sources were verified on July 28, 2026, and the provider, NHIS, pharmacy and insurer information applicable on the actual care date always controls.

Compare year 1 and three years from the same itemised evidence

Separate covered gross, full-patient-payment and non-covered amounts, then add only the confirmed prescription, follow-up schedule, fertility quote, retreatment scenario and insurance payments.
Use the result and checklist to prepare questions for the provider while leaving diagnosis and treatment decisions with the responsible clinicians.