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1.2 million baby boys are circumcised a year in the United States alone. At a dollar per procedure, that is already $1,200,000 a year. The going rate for a circumcision procedure is approximately $1,700 when hospital charges are included. American; multiplied by 1.2 million, that is approximately $2,040,000,000 a year that circumcision brings in based on the procedure alone.
When a baby boy is to be circumcised, mother and baby remain in hospital for about one-fourth of a day longer,<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal |last=Mansfield |first=Christopher J |author-link= |last2=Hueston |first2=William J |author2-link= |last3=Rudy |first3=Mary |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Neonatal circumcision: associated factors and length of hospital stay |trans-title= |language=English |journal=J Fam Pract |location= |date=1995-10 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=370-6 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/mansfield/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=7561711 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2020-08-04}}</ref> so that increases the profit to the hospital. Bollinger (2012) estimates that the total cost of non-therapeutic male circumcision, including hospital costs, repair of botched circumcisions, treatment of complications, and so on is more than $3 billion per year.<refname="bollinger2012">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually
|title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually