What private hospitals do to contain medical costs
What private hospitals do to contain medical costs
Hospitals help achieve roughly 22% in cost savings for patients by streamlining operations, optimising resource use, and improving internal efficiency.
In brief: Dr Kuljit writes that although private hospitals’ operating costs rose by 10–15% a year between 2020 and 2023, efficiency measures kept much of that increase away from patients. He identifies growing use of healthcare as the main driver of costs, highlights technology such as robotic surgery and digital tools, and calls for shared responsibility: patients avoiding over-use, doctors avoiding unnecessary procedures, and hospitals offering financial counselling and displaying medicine prices.
