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Orthopedics · Bursa, Turkey

Knee Surgery cost in Bursa

Procedure from

$932

All-in from United States

≈ $2,820

42
B

MPI · Procedure Index · how

Procedure price range · Bursa

Cheaper than 63% of cities pricing this

$932lowest $932typical $932highest

Updated 2026-07-19 · How we collect & verify prices Compare clinics ↓

In plain words · Knee Surgery is a medical procedure — the prices below are what hospitals publish for it.

ACL, PCL Repair, Knee Realignment, Osteotomy, Robotic Knee Surgery, Cartilage Restoration

Procedure from
$932
lowest listed
Typical
$932
city midpoint
All-in
≈ $2,820
from United States
MPI Index
42
B
Clinics
1
in Bursa

Top hospital in Bursa

Medicana Bursa Hospital AA 3.5★ JCI

Medicana Bursa Hospital is a hospital in Bursa, Turkey · operating since 2017 · 300 beds. 75 ICU beds, 10 operating theatres, JCI-accredited. Clinical departments include Acil Servis, Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı, Aile Hekimliği, Anestezi ve Reanimasyon. Profile compiled from the hospital's own published pages (see sources).

Procedure in Bursa from $932 — full price data below.

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Procedure price in Bursa, local currency

Verified

The published market range in local currency, with today's conversions.

TRY 43,965–TRY 43,965

≈ $932–$932 · €816–€816 · £694–£694 · A$1,340–A$1,340 — converted at the ECB via frankfurter.dev rate of 2026-07-17

Vs home markets

  • United States Not yet sourced
  • United Kingdom Not yet sourced
  • Australia Not yet sourced
  • Germany Not yet sourced

Currency exposure — bills are in TRY: a 5% move against your currency shifts the mid-range by ≈ $47 either way. Converted at the ECB via frankfurter.dev rate of 2026-07-17.

Official tariff as of 2026

Verified against published clinic prices.

Hospitals & clinics in Bursa

Best first

The best hospitals first — Newsweek World's Best national top 10 lead, then our connected-chain grade. Re-rank by cheapest, rating or reviews.

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All-in trip cost

Modeled preview

Procedure plus flights, hotel, transport and medication from United States — the number that actually decides it.

Procedure (from)
$932
Flights (round-trip) est.
$1,110
Hotel · 5 nights est.
$350
Local transport est.
$110
Medication est.
$320
All-in ≈
$2,820

Flights are estimated round-trip economy from United States (change in the header). Hotel, transport and medication are Medical Travel Cost estimates, not quotes. Procedure is the lowest price on this page.

Knee Surgery in other cities

Imported

The same procedure across the registry — cheapest first. Cities we haven't priced yet show no number, never a guess.

City From vs Bursa MPI Specialists
New Delhi India $623 -33% 3
Istanbul Turkey $932 0% 25
Ankara Turkey $932 0% 9
Antalya Turkey $932 0% 3
İzmir Turkey $932 0% 2
Bursa This page Turkey $932 baseline B 1
Kocaeli Turkey $932 0% 1
Seoul South Korea $1,250 +34% 30
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia not yet priced · being collected

Cheapest starting price per city, converted to your currency. ★ = lowest in the registry; cheapest ≠ best — the MPI column grades each market as its data lands. "—" is never guessed.

What's in the price — and why it varies

Modeled preview

A typical cost anatomy over the published total, and the factors that move a real quote up or down.

Typical cost anatomy

≈ $932
  • Surgeon & operating room$251
  • Anesthesia$100
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$205
  • Implants & materials$292
  • Post-op & follow-up$84

Usually included

  • ✓ Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • ✓ 5 nights' hospital stay
  • ✓ Standard implants & materials
  • ✓ Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise

What moves the price

  • 1Implant brand and fixation method
  • 2Case complexity and how advanced the condition is
  • 3Surgeon seniority and case volume
  • 4Hospital tier, theatre and room class
  • 5Materials, implants or drug generation used
  • 6Anesthesia type and time in theatre
Published package inclusions per hospitalwhat each hospital's package price covers vs à-la-carte — the line-by-line comparison that settles quotes Not yet sourced

The split is modeled from typical cost structures; the total is the published price. Itemized hospital quotes replace this as they're sourced.

What you're buying — the spec sheet

Modeled preview

The countable facts of the purchase itself — setting, anesthesia, theatre time, visits and materials. Hospital-published specs replace the typicals as they're collected.

Setting
3-night hospital admission (typical)
Anesthesia
General or regional — case-dependent
Time in theatre
Not yet sourcedhospital-published — collected per hospital
Visits
One procedure + follow-up around day 10
Device / materials
Not yet sourcedwhat's implanted or used — collected per procedure

Typicals from the same model as the recovery timeline — your surgeon's plan for your case is the spec that counts. Every sourced spec raises this page's MPI coverage.

Recovery timeline

Modeled preview

Plan ~12 days in Turkey before flying home; back to work ~day 42, full recovery ~day 180. Your surgeon confirms your case.

  1. Day −2

    Arrive · consultation, tests & final treatment plan

  2. Day 0

    Procedure · admitted to the hospital

  3. Day 3

    Discharged from hospital (3 nights)

  4. Day 10

    First follow-up check with your doctor

  5. Day 10

    Typically cleared to fly home

  6. Day 21

    Walking & light activity comfortably

  7. Day 42

    Back to desk work

  8. Day 90

    Exercise & strenuous activity again

  9. Day 180

    Full recovery · final result (typical)

Back home — who takes care of you after

  • Before flying home Final review around day 10, before you're cleared to fly
  • First weeks back home A wound / progress check in the first weeks — doable locally with your records
  • Take with you Full operative notes, imaging and implant/protocol details — ask before discharge
  • Remote follow-up offered Not yet sourced
  • Complication support window Not yet sourced

The two hospital-policy rows are collected per hospital — remote follow-up and complication support are decision data, so they're never assumed.

Outcomes & success benchmarks

Registry data available

The outcome metrics that will grade this procedure in the Medical Travel Cost Index — filled from clinical registries and hospital-published data, never guessed.

What outcomes to expect — national registry benchmarks

These figures come from large clinical registries (UK, US and other national/international programs) — they describe the whole registry's patient population, not any hospital or country shown on this page. No hospital here has published its own outcome rate; ask any clinic you shortlist for theirs.

  • 10-year revision rate Primary knee replacements, England+Wales+N.Ireland+Isle of Man+Guernsey, all fixation/constraint/bearing types combined, N=1,805,000 Kaplan-Meier cumulative probability of first revision (any cause) at 10 years, Table 3.K5 'All types' row (95% CI 3.79-3.86). Directly parallel to the hip Table 3.H5 headline in this same file (same report, same methodology, so the two are comparable). 3.82% NJR · 2025 (NJR 22nd Annual Report; cumulative data to 31 Dec 2024) · Source →
  • 90-day mortality rate Primary total knee replacement (TKR) recipients, England+Wales+N.Ireland+Isle of Man+Guernsey, all ages/sexes combined, N=1,558,302 ALL-CAUSE mortality within 90 days of primary TKR, NOT a surgery-specific complication rate. Kaplan-Meier estimate, Table 3.K12(a) 'All cases' row. Excludes unicompartmental/partial knee replacements (reported separately in Table 3.K12(b)) and unknown-type/same-day-bilateral cases. 0.28% NJR · 2025 (NJR 22nd Annual Report; deaths counted to 31 Dec 2024) · Source →
0 of 6 outcome metrics sourced — each one raises this page's MPI coverage Show slots
  • Success rate vs published international benchmarks Not yet sourced
  • Complication rate vs WHO/OECD averages Not yet sourced
  • Revision / re-treatment rate vs registry average Not yet sourced
  • Patient-reported satisfaction vs same procedure across the registry Not yet sourced
  • Procedures per year in this market hospital-published volumes · national statistics Not yet sourced
  • Annual volume at the busiest hospital here volume–outcome proxy · hospital-published Not yet sourced

Empty slots are deliberate — a number appears here only with a source behind it, never guessed.

Turkey for medical travel — safety, recourse & visa

Sourced Full Turkey guide →

What matters if it goes wrong, and what it takes to get there — country-level, verifiable guidance in one place.

Visa
Turkey's e-Visa / visa-on-arrival system (evisa.gov.tr) is valid ONLY for tourism or commerce; work, study and other purposes require a visa issued by a Turkish embassy or consulate. Confirm your nationality's current rule before travelling.
Medical / long-stay visa
There is no separate medical/health-tourism visa — international patients enter on the standard e-Visa or visa-free tourist route like any other visitor. The health-tourism-specific control sits on the FACILITY side instead: treating providers must hold the Ministry of Health's 'Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi Yetki Belgesi' authorization.
Traveller safety
Generally safe
Legal recourse
Limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer
Insurance
Medical-travel & complication cover widely available
International patients
Hospitals accustomed to international patients

General guidance from public sources — confirm current rules for your nationality. Verified against: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Visa information for foreigners.

Risks & the questions to ask

Modeled preview

A planning frame — the risks are confirmed for your case by the specialist. The checklist is what an expert would ask before booking anywhere.

Common & temporary

Swelling, bruising, short-term pain

Serious & rare

Bleeding, infection, anesthesia reactions, revision surgery

How to de-risk

Ask the complication and revision rate for THIS procedure at THIS hospital, and what aftercare is included if something goes wrong

Eligibility — is this even for you?

Typical candidacy criteriaclinical guidelines · sourced per procedure Not yet sourced
Common contraindicationswhat typically rules it out — sourced per procedure Not yet sourced

Ask the specialist before you book

  1. 1How many of this exact procedure did you perform last year?
  2. 2What is your complication and revision rate for it?
  3. 3What anesthesia will be used, and who administers it?
  4. 4Who manages my aftercare once I fly home, and how?
  5. 5What exactly is included in the quoted price — and what isn't?

Framework guidance modeled by procedure type — per-procedure clinical risk data replaces it as it's sourced.

Alternatives to knee surgery

Directory

What's typically considered instead, and when — suitability is a specialist's call, not a price comparison.

  • Physiotherapy & conservative care Typically chosen first-line for many joint and spine problems.
  • Arthroscopic (keyhole) option → Typically chosen when damage is limited and repairable.

Linked alternatives are priced in this city; the rest join as their pages go live.

Conditions & specialists for this

Directory

How this procedure connects to the conditions it treats and the specialists who perform it in Bursa.

Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition page, teal a specialist page, both priced for Bursa.

Medical Travel Cost Procedure Index

MPI · Method 1.3 Methodology →

One comparable grade per procedure page — each metric measured against the price registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

42
B

80% of the formula backed by data

  • Price competitiveness 63 Imported cheaper than 63% of cities · vs 19 cities pricing this procedure · 63th percentile
  • Savings vs home Not sourced — · needs a home-market price to compare
  • Price evidence 18 Imported 1 data point · sourced/verified price rows behind the range
  • Provider choice 12 Imported 1 clinics · providers offering it in this city
  • Provider trust 60 Our index 60/100 top · best provider's Trust Index

Same method as every hospital and procedure page in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.

Common questions

Sourced + modeled

Short answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, stay length, safety and verification.

How much does knee surgery cost in Bursa?

The published range in Bursa is TRY 43,965–TRY 43,965 (typically around $932). Clinic quotes vary by case.

How long do I need to stay in Bursa?

Plan roughly 12 days in Turkey for the typical case — arrival and consultation, the procedure, and follow-up before you're cleared to fly. Back to desk work around day 42 (modeled typical; your doctor confirms).

Is it safe to have knee surgery in Turkey?

Generally safe for visitors, and limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer. Hospital-level safety signals (accreditation, Trust Index) are listed per hospital below — availability and outcomes always depend on the individual provider.

Which hospitals in Bursa offer knee surgery?

1 orthopedics and multi-specialty providers are listed for Bursa, with a top Trust Index of 60/100. We list them as a directory — per-hospital availability is confirmed on each hospital's own page.

Are these prices verified?

Yes — the Bursa price range is verified against a published clinic source (MoH Kamu Sağlık Hizmetleri Fiyat Tarifesi EK-2 (official minimum tariff, intl health-tourism patients)). Per-clinic prices are added and verified next.

Data & sources

22% verified Methodology →

How much of this page is verified data — every section carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.

49%
data confidence · Partial
Verified facts22%
Page filled89%
All 9 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • City price range· MoH Kamu Sağlık Hizmetleri Fiyat Tarifesi EK-2 (official minimum tariff, intl health-tourism patients) ✓ Verified
  • Per-clinic prices Not yet collected
  • City comparison· 8 priced Imported
  • Provider directory· 1 clinics Imported
  • Outcome benchmarks· 2 registry metrics — population-level, not this hospital's Imported
  • Spec sheet & aftercare· 3 of 5 specs typed Modeled
  • Recovery timeline Modeled
  • Trip cost estimates Modeled
  • Visa & travel guidance ✓ Verified

Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Medical Travel Cost Index. Methodology →