Patients charged 6 times the cost for knee implants: Report
National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority on Friday said in a report that hospitals and distributors charge nearly â¹4.13 lakh for knee replacement implants, which is over six times their import price of â¹65,782. Doctors said the implants remain expensive for patients, even though the number of knee and hip replacement surgeries has increased by 600 times in the last five years.