{"id":5288,"date":"2013-07-29T05:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2013-07-29T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:37:38","slug":"heart-surgery-in-india-for-1583-costs-106385-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-07-28\/heart-surgery-in-india-for-1-583-costs-106-385-in-u-s-.html\">Ketaki Gokhale<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.<br \/>\nShetty is not a public health official motivated by charity. He\u2019s a heart surgeon turned businessman who has started a chain of 21 medical centers around India. By trimming costs with such measures as buying cheaper scrubs and spurning air-conditioning, he has cut the price of artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery to 95,000 rupees ($1,583), half of what it was 20 years ago, and wants to get the price down to $800 within a decade. The same procedure costs $106,385 at Ohio\u2019s Cleveland Clinic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services.<br \/>\n\u201cIt shows that costs can be substantially contained,\u201d said Srinath Reddy, president of the Geneva-based World Heart Federation, of Shetty\u2019s approach. \u201cIt\u2019s possible to deliver very high quality cardiac care at a relatively low cost.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ketaki Gokhale: Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. Shetty is not a public health official motivated by charity. He\u2019s a heart surgeon turned businessman who has started a chain of 21 medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}