For cataract surgery for kids, the price can vary greatly across the country depending on the area and hospital. The average adult surgery is about$7,000, but there are several additional costs for kids, such as about$1,500 for general anesthesia surgery, plus the cost of general anesthesia medication. Also, kids are operated on differently than adults. If you follow the surgical method for adults, children are prone to posterior capsulotomy after surgery, which will affect children’s vision and make them prone to getting amblyopia and affecting vision training in the future. Therefore, the surgical method should be posterior capsulotomy, and also anterior section of the glass cut, so the cost of the surgery will be increased by a few thousand dollars. Pediatric anesthesia after the awakening time, now there are many hospitals are placed in the ICU ward, the cost of surgery will further increase. So with different regions, different hospitals, and different surgical methods, the price of surgery for children can be up to$20,000, or at least$10,000 or more.