Urinary Stone ESWL Cost Calculator

Urinary Stone ESWL Cost Calculator helps estimate Korea-related hospital procedure, surgery, recovery, complication reserve, and insurance scenarios in English.

Urinary stone ESWL cost calculator

Uses the Korean urinary stone model for stone size, location, expected ESWL sessions, hospital level, outpatient copay, copay ceiling, per-session non-covered cost, private indemnity visit cap, tax credit, and ESWL versus URS comparison.

Korean source inputs

Final after insurance and tax

₩56,250

Final ESWL treatment estimate

Patient payment before offsets

₩281,250

NHI copay, non-covered items, room, and selected add-ons before private reimbursement and tax credit.

Estimated private reimbursement

₩225,000

Uses the Korean source generation rules.

Estimated tax credit

₩0

Medical expense credit follows the Korean 3 percent salary threshold and 15 percent credit model.

Cost range

₩50,625 - ₩64,687

Low and high estimate from the source model.

Applied NHI copay

50%

Before private indemnity reimbursement.

Non-covered total

₩0

Self-pay items outside ordinary covered medical benefit.

Per-session final cost

₩28,125

2 ESWL sessions selected.

Success estimate

72%

신장 10mm 결석은 체외충격파쇄석술(ESWL)에 적합한 편입니다. 다만 한 번에 깨지지 않으면 1~2회 추가 시술이 필요할 수 있습니다.

ESWL vs URS cheaper option

ESWL

Difference ₩418,750.

The English calculator calls the same Korean pure function as the Korean page; labels are translated, not re-modeled.

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Urinary stone ESWL cost calculator

This page translates the Korean urinary stone ESWL guide for stone size, stone location, expected ESWL sessions, hospital level, outpatient copay, repeat-session discount, private indemnity per-visit cap, ESWL versus URS comparison, and tax credit.

ESWL session cost

The source anchors ESWL at a public average of KRW 374,495 per session in 2024, with a stated range from KRW 265,000 to KRW 480,800. The calculator uses hospital-level covered fees of KRW 300,000 at clinics, KRW 340,000 at hospitals, KRW 375,000 at general hospitals, and KRW 430,000 at tertiary hospitals.

Repeat sessions for the same stone use a 50 percent rate from the second ESWL session onward. Per-session non-covered pain control, imaging, or medication can be entered separately.

Stone size and treatment comparison

Stones under 5 mm are usually modeled with natural passage as the recommended base, 5 to 10 mm with ESWL and 85 percent success, 10 to 15 mm with ESWL and 72 percent success, 15 to 20 mm with URS preferred and 58 percent ESWL success, and stones over 20 mm with PCNL preferred and 42 percent ESWL success.

Lower ureter stones add one expected ESWL session and reduce success by 15 percentage points. Upper ureter stones increase the success adjustment by 5 percentage points. URS comparison self-pay is modeled at KRW 700,000.

Insurance reading

Outpatient covered copay follows hospital level: 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent, or 60 percent. Private indemnity per-visit caps are KRW 1,000,000 for generation 1, KRW 250,000 for generations 2 and 3, and KRW 200,000 for generations 4 and 5.

Use the result with stone CT findings, hydronephrosis, infection risk, pain severity, travel distance, and urologist recommendation.