The total costs per patient were L4,663,234 (operating-room costs: L463,234 and hospital stay costs:L4,200,000) for laparotomic cholecystectomy and L3,835,513 (operating-room costs:L2,335,513 and hospital stay costs:L1,500,000) for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Considering that in the area of the study 1,212 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the savings in terms of hospital stay could be 5,454 days.