11 Most Expensive Hospital Treatments in America

3. Small bowel resection

Average cost per stay in hospital: $34,500

Small bowel resection is a surgery performed in order to remove the small bowel either partly or completely. It is generally performed when the small bowel has either been blocked or even infected due to some disease. If you were unaware that there is an organ called the small bowel inside you, then you need not worry. It is simply another word for the small intestine, the place where most of the digestion of your food takes place.

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