Galichia Hospital has a complete program to meet your needs if you're traveling a short distance or from far away. We will assist you with travel, accommodations, and the details of your preoperative visit.You will be assigned a clinical and administrative liaison that will ensure you are taken care of. We are a general acute care hospital serving the adult population. Our patient rooms are private, to ease in your comfort during your stay with us in Wichita, Kansas. Literally, in the center of the United States.
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About Galichia Heart Hospital: Galichia Heart Hospital is an 82-bed full-service, acute care hospital located in Wichita, Kan. With a staff of more than 150 physicians, the hospital is committed to world class care and improved efficiency in all areas of patient treatment and care. Specialties include cardiology, interventional cardiology, diagnostic radiology, nephrology, emergency medicine, nuclear cardiology, electrophysiology, interventional vascular medicine, gastroenterology, orthopedics, general surgery, sleep disorders, internal medicine, family practice and endocrinology.
Escalating health care and insurance costs are driving many Americans overseas for medical care, but some U.S. hospitals -- including at least one in Wichita -- are aiming to bring foreign patients here by offering deeply discounted rates. At the forefront are physician-owned hospitals, whose managers say they have the efficiency and flexibility to charge extremely low rates and still come out ahead. They call it reverse medical tourism. Galichia Heart Hospital treated its first out-of-country patient last month, a Canadian who needed a hip replacement and was willing to pay cash instead of waiting months -- or even years -- for what is considered elective surgery in Canada.
Galichia Heart Hospital Lowers Cost of Bypass to $10K
Quality Cardiology Center Seeks End to Soaring Health Costs
For Release: Tuesday, February 26, 7:35 AM, ET Wichita, Kansas - The Galichia Heart Hospital, one of the nation's leading cardiology treatment centers, announced that it will now charge a flat fee of $10,000 for one of the most common types of open heart surgery, coronary bypass, according to a story in the Wichita Eagle published this week. "After carefully studying our costs and reviewing our social responsibilities, the board of directors has taken careful aim at rising U.S. healthcare costs by offering an eighty percent reduction in the cost of open heart surgery to a world-class rate," said Steve Harris, hospital chief executive.
"About five of every 1000 people need open-heart surgery every year, so a community this size, produces roughly 2000 procedures annually," Harris said. Surgeons at the Galichia Heart Hospital perform about 200 open-heart surgeries a year. Candidates for the flat-fee surgery will be examined and screened to be sure they have not previously had the same operation.
"The entire world is worried about the cost of healthcare and as we analyzed what we could do in our arena, we found that with good management, a low degree of complications, predicated on safety and experience, we could change the challenge the number one killer at an affordable cost," said Galichia Heart Hospital founder, Joseph P. Galichia, MD, FACC.
