Hip Replacement in Lithuania

A total hip replacement in Lithuania costs about £3,800 to £7,700, according to our price research of July 2026 (two or more sources per figure, from clinic and booking-site price lists). That covers the implant, the surgeon, the anaesthetist, a 1 to 2 night stay and transfers; the top of the range adds about a week of rehab. A self-pay hip replacement at a UK private hospital costs £12,000 to £17,000 in the same research.

For many people the price is not what holds them back. Lithuania is a country they have never visited, with a hospital they have never seen. This guide sets out what the hip costs, how to check the clinic and the surgeon on Lithuania's own licence register, what the reviews do and don't tell you, and what happens on the flight home and afterwards.

How Much Does Hip Surgery Cost in Lithuania?

£3,800 to £7,700 for a total hip replacement in 2026, before flights. The spread depends mostly on how many nights you stay and how much rehab is included.

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We converted euro prices at €1 = £0.86, so a euro quote will move with the exchange rate. The NHS figure is from a written answer to Parliament of February 2025.

Is It Safe To Have Hip Replacement Surgery In Lithuania?

No register can tell you an operation will go well. What Lithuania does offer is one public service that licenses both its clinics and its individual doctors, so you can check both before you pay anything.

The licensing body, VASPVT, publishes two searches: licences held by clinics and hospitals and licences held by individual specialists, which show a doctor's licence number, its status and their qualification. When we checked in July 2026, we found the named surgeons of six Lithuanian clinics we hold on the specialist register (checked 20 July 2026).

Two Lithuanian clinics we hold mention JCI accreditation in their own materials, and we could not find either in JCI's public directory (checked 20 July 2026). Accreditation can lapse, and a group's accreditation does not always cover every building. If a clinic tells you it is accredited, ask which building and which year, and look it up yourself. Our guide on how to check a clinic in Lithuania has the step-by-step version.

What's Included In The Cost, and What Usually Isn't

A quote covers what the clinic writes on it, and nothing more. Our July 2026 research found Lithuanian hip prices range from a short 1 to 2 night stay to packages with about a week of rehab. Ask for each of these to be confirmed in writing, item by item:

• How many nights in hospital, and what happens if you need more.
• How many physiotherapy sessions, and whether any continue after discharge.
• Hotel nights between discharge and your flight, and transfers to and from the airport.
• The implant: the maker and model, and a card or record of it to bring home for your GP.
• Follow-up: who reviews your wound and your X-ray once you are back in the UK, and whether that costs extra.
• What the clinic does, and who pays, if there is a complication after you fly home.

Flights for you and anyone travelling with you are not usually in the hospital price either.

What Patients Say About Lithuanian Hospitals

Reviews are useful for patterns, such as how people describe the nursing, the food or the transfer from the airport. They are less useful as a verdict. Across the four Lithuanian orthopaedic hospitals and clinics we hold, the Google listings for the buildings where operations take place carried 3,979 reviews between them when we captured them on 6 October 2026. A hospital's main listing mixes reviews from every department, and an outpatient centre often has a listing of its own, so check that the reviews you are reading are about the building where you would have surgery.

Flying home after a hip replacement

Your surgeon decides when you are fit to fly. A direct flight from London to Kaunas or Vilnius takes about 2 hours 35 to 2 hours 45 minutes on published airline schedules (October 2026).

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, an NHS trust, advises waiting 3 months after a hip or knee replacement before any journey longer than 4 hours, and no long-haul flight within 4 weeks of any surgery. The NHS lists recent surgery, being over 60 and a journey of more than 4 hours by plane, car or train as risk factors for a blood clot (DVT) (page reviewed 30 April 2026). Count the whole journey door to door, including the drive to the airport and the wait at the gate. More detail is in our guide to flying after a hip replacement.

When you get home: what the NHS will and won't do

The NHS does not pay for planned private surgery abroad, and it does not take responsibility for it. Its guidance on going abroad for medical treatment (checked 6 October 2026) says three things that matter for a hip or knee:

• Your GHIC or EHIC card does not cover going abroad for planned treatment. It is for necessary care that comes up during a visit.
• The NHS is not liable for negligence or failure of treatment abroad, and you need to know how your aftercare will work when you return home.
• Most travel insurance will not cover planned treatment abroad, so you may need specialist cover. Tell your insurer what you are planning.

The NHS treatment abroad checklist also asks you to involve your GP before you go and to agree how your medical notes will reach the team abroad. The S2 route can fund treatment in an EU country only at a state hospital, only if approved before treatment, and never at a private clinic. Our step-by-step trip guides for a hip and a knee cover the first six weeks at home, and who to call.

Related guides: the countries UK patients choose for a hip and the trip, step by step.

See also: hip replacement cost in the UK, published hip and knee prices abroad, hip and knee replacement abroad from Ireland.

This guide is general information, not medical advice.

Clinics UK patients look at

The four with the most Google reviews among the orthopaedic clinics we hold. Each has a free page with its records.

Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, ChennaiChennai, IndiaKIMS-Sunshine Hospitals, BegumpetHyderabad (Begumpet), IndiaYashoda Hospitals, SomajigudaHyderabad (Somajiguda, Raj Bhavan Road), IndiaYashoda Hospitals, MalakpetHyderabad (Malakpet, Nalgonda X Roads), India

Written by Saher Shodhan

Saher Shodhan is the founder of Thera Travel, which publishes what the official records show about clinics abroad, each fact with the date it was checked, and answers patients' enquiries, free. More about Thera → How we write and check our guides →