PRIVATE HEALTHCARE PRICES BECOMING MORE TRASPARENT BUT FURTHER PROGRESS, WARNS PHIN

Pharma Field - New information on private healthcare prices published by the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) will help patients to compare medical fees before seeking treatment, including regional differences in price. However, PHIN also warns that medical fees are just one part of the total price of private healthcare, and that work remains to bring full transparency to fees and charges for patients. Approximately one in four private healthcare procedures in the UK are people paying for their own treatment (self-pay), which is around 200,000 procedures per year. The other 75% are covered by private medical insurance.Consultants had to disclose their fees for self-pay patients after a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation...>>>