TREATMENT / ABROAD GUIDE BD
A hip replacement — total hip arthroplasty — replaces the worn ball and socket of the hip with an artificial joint. This page explains what the operation involves, what prices are actually published by destination, which hospitals in our directory list hip work, how recovery usually runs, and what can go wrong.
Reviewed by our clinical review panel · Cost data checked 20 October 2026 · Sources linked on the cost file
The hip is a ball-and-socket joint. The ball is the head of the thigh bone, the socket is a hollow in the pelvis. In a replacement the surgeon removes the worn ball, prepares the socket, and fits an artificial joint: a stem in the thigh bone, a cup in the pelvis, a liner, and a new ball.
The operation is done under spinal or general anaesthesia, through an incision over the hip, with the leg positioned so the joint can be reached. Most replacements take between one and two hours of operating time, and blood loss is usually managed without transfusion, though both vary with the case.
The stem is either cemented into the canal of the thigh bone or pressed in and left for bone to grow against it. The cup is a metal shell with a plastic or ceramic liner, and the new ball is metal or ceramic. Which combination is used changes the price and the follow-up plan, and that choice belongs to the surgeon and the patient rather than to a price list.
Surgeons reach the hip from behind, from the side, or from the front. The direct anterior route passes between muscles rather than through them, and it is the approach Bangkok Hospital names in its published package. Each route has its own recovery pattern and its own set of risks.
A first operation on one hip is a primary total hip replacement. A second operation on the same hip is a revision, it is a longer and larger procedure, and it is priced separately wherever it is priced at all.
A replacement is considered when the joint itself is worn and the symptoms are no longer controlled without surgery. The pattern surgeons describe looks like this:
These are common thresholds, not a rule. Hip pain can also come from the back, and a surgeon will examine for that before offering an operation.
These are the published figures in our cost file, in the currency each hospital or government prints them in. Two Thai rows appear because an implant-inclusive package and an implant-excluded package are different products and cannot be compared with each other.
Destination
Published figure
What the figure covers
BDT guide
India
Published figure
quoted per case
What the figure covers
No Indian provider’s hip replacement price could be verified
BDT guide
quoted per case
Thailand, implant excluded
Published figure
THB 420,000
What the figure covers
Bangkok Hospital, direct anterior approach, 4 nights, standard room, theatre and team fees
BDT guide
BDT 1,548,750
Thailand, implant included
Published figure
THB 629,000
What the figure covers
Samitivej robotic programme, 4-day stay, doctor fees and implant
BDT guide
BDT 2,319,438
Turkey
Published figure
EUR 9,100–16,900
What the figure covers
Acıbadem published guide range for international patients
BDT guide
BDT 1,264,117–2,347,647
Malaysia
Published figure
quoted per case
What the figure covers
No Malaysian hip replacement price located
BDT guide
quoted per case
Singapore
Published figure
SGD 42,857–55,244
What the figure covers
Actual private hospital bills, 25th to 75th percentile, GST included, 2023 discharges
BDT guide
BDT 4,139,348–5,335,747
Sri Lanka
Published figure
quoted per case
What the figure covers
No Sri Lankan private price list located
BDT guide
quoted per case
Bangladesh
Published figure
quoted per case
What the figure covers
No published Dhaka price located
BDT guide
quoted per case
Singapore’s figures are bills that were actually charged in 2023, not quotes. The conversions use the rate printed beside each figure in our cost file and ignore card and transfer margin. Where a cell reads quoted per case, no provider publishes a figure and the only number worth having is a written quote from the hospital itself.
Twelve of the 87 hospitals in our directory list orthopaedics, or bone and joint work, as a filed specialty. The three we name below were JCI-accredited on the date we checked; the other nine carry mixed accreditation records.
Mumbai, India. JCI accredited. Filed specialties include Bone & Joint.
Ask about this hospital Penang, Malaysia. JCI accredited. Filed specialties include an orthopaedic clinic and Bone & Joint.
Ask about this hospital Bangkok, Thailand. JCI accredited. Filed specialties include Orthopaedics.
Ask about this hospitalBangkok Hospital, whose implant-excluded package price appears in the table above, is filed in our directory without a published specialty list, so it is not named in the cards. For any other hospital, check the destination pages before you shortlist. Browse the medical directory.
Recovery is a sequence of milestones rather than a fixed calendar, and the treating team sets the pace. What patients commonly meet:
Flying long haul after a joint replacement is a clinical decision rather than an itinerary one. The airline and the surgeon each set conditions, and the treating team should confirm the date in writing before a return ticket is booked.
Any operation carries risk. The list below covers what joint replacement surgeons routinely discuss with patients. The treating hospital will give its own version, and the numbers it quotes for its own unit are the ones that matter.
The risks specific to hip replacement include infection in the wound or around the implant, blood clots in the leg or the lung, dislocation of the new joint in the early weeks, a difference in leg length, nerve injury that can leave numbness or a dropped foot, fracture of the thigh bone during the operation, and loosening or wear of the implant over the years that may eventually need a revision.
The general risks are those of any operation under anaesthetic: a reaction to the anaesthetic, bleeding, chest infection, and pressure sores during a long lie.
Some of these turn into money. Complications, intensive care beyond the package and revision surgery all fall outside the Thai packages above, which say so on their own pages. The Singapore figures are bill data rather than packages, so they reflect what patients were charged, complications included.
How long does a hip replacement take?
Usually between one and two hours of operating time, plus preparation before and recovery after. The hospital’s estimate for your own case will be more accurate than any general figure.
Does the Thai package price include the implant?
It depends which package. Bangkok Hospital’s THB 420,000 direct anterior package excludes the implant, which is normally the largest single line in the bill. Samitivej’s THB 629,000 programme includes the implant and the doctor fees. Treat them as different products and compare like with like.
Why is there no price for India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh?
Because none of those destinations published a hip replacement figure we could verify. The Indian provider pages were not retrievable, and no Malaysian, Sri Lankan or Bangladeshi hospital prints a hip price. Those rows read quoted per case for that reason, not because the operation is unavailable there.
Will I need a revision operation?
Some implants last for decades and some do not, and nothing on this page predicts your own case. What exists is a national count: the UK National Joint Registry's 2026 report puts cumulative revision at 3.53% at ten years, 5.65% at fifteen and 8.25% at twenty, across 1,807,056 hip replacements (NJR 23rd Annual Report 2026, hips, checked 22 October 2026). Read that as roughly four people in every hundred needing a second operation on the same hip within ten years, and roughly eight within twenty.What this is not. It is not your risk, and it is not a hospital's record. These are national averages across every surgeon, every implant and every patient in one country; a centre doing 400 hips a year will have its own figures, better or worse.What moves it. The implant matters more than most patients expect, which is why UK guidance expects a prosthesis to carry a revision rate of no more than 5% at ten years to be used (NICE NG157, checked 22 October 2026). Ask the hospital: "What is your unit's ten-year revision rate for this implant, and how many of these have your surgeons done?"
Can I fly home soon after the operation?
Airlines and surgeons both apply rules after joint replacement, and a safe interval depends on the approach used, the wound and any clot risk. Ask the treating team to put a date in writing before booking.
What does quoted per case mean?
It means the hospital prices each patient individually after seeing imaging and a medical history. The figure arrives as a written quote, and that quote is the only number worth setting beside the published packages above.
Send your imaging and history, tell us which destinations you are considering, and we will ask the hospitals you choose for a written price in the currency you will actually pay.
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