Medical/surgery costs

I currently live in Tokyo on a student visa & have enrolled in the national health insurance. Does anyone know any websites where I can check specific medical costs in detail such as consultation cost, x-ray cost, MRI cost, surgery cost, hospital stay cost, rehab costs, etc? Trying to check the cost of having an ACL surgery or a knee replacement surgery here. I could have it done in my home country, but I need to be in Japan at least for one day of each month, and most of my research materials for my studies are here. Also, if anyone knows of any specialist sports clinics in Tokyo with doctors I can speak English to, that would be a big help.

Thank you.

For ACL reconstruction surgery, a search through some Japanese blogs and hospital sites gave me a rough guideline of around 300,000 yen, that is, WITH the national health insurance scheme, meaning you are paying 30% of medical charges.

For hospitals, you might want to refer to list provided by US Embassy in Japan.

http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/acs/tacs-7119.html

Don't worry, the cost is reasonable. What I'd worry about is the fact that the pain medicine in Japan is horrible and doesn't work. For knee replacement that will be excruciating.

Thank you, AK, for the link & the info.

Thank you, . , for the the tip on the pain medicine. Kinda knew already that Japanese medicine is kinda weak in dosage, but during surgery, I should be knocked out, right? (^^) But yeah, post-surgery medication would probably be low in dosage, so recovery maybe a bit more painful.

I'm sure you will go through this with a doc, but if reconstruction is an option, replacement can be very limiting. Not only do they have a life span far shorter than most students, but even aside from the obvious activity restrictions, on an artificial knee things as simple as kneeling can be quite stressful to the new joint. Not to mention recovery from replacement ain't much fun.