Robot-assisted gynecological procedures increased by more than 40% between 2011 and 2013. The number of robotic procedures is approaching 500,000 per year worldwide.
About 1,500 U.S. hospitals have installed the da Vinci Surgical System from Intuitive Surgical, the only Food and Drug Administration-approved robotic surgery system in the U.S. Each device costs about $2 million, plus annual service contracts of about $150,000 per year. Each case consumes between $1,200 and $2,000 worth of disposable supplies beyond that which the same, non-robotic, minimally invasive surgical case would require.
The net result is that robotic surgery usually costs more than other comparable procedures. Hysterectomies by the robotic procedure cost nearly $50,000, according to a study by surgeons from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, while the open abdominal approach was about $44,000 and a standard laparoscopic procedure is just over $28,000.
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