What should be the future development direction of private hospitals

In early April 2014, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Health and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "Notice on Issues Related to the Implementation of Market Adjustment of Prices for Medical Services in Non-Public Medical Institutions" (Development and Reform of Prices 2014503), which proposes that "the prices of medical services in non-public medical institutions should be market-adjusted ", is considered to be a new good to encourage social capital to run medical treatment.

For some people worry that the price liberalization will bring private medical institutions prices, which in turn led to the public hospitals prices, the author believes that the chances of the above phenomenon is relatively small, mainly at this stage, although China's health care resources on the whole is relatively tense, but the private health care institutions within the competition is more intense, the number of institutions, but the demand for fewer is the cause of the industry's internal competition The main reason for the more intense. Prospective Industry Research Institute published "China's private medical industry depth research and investment strategy planning analysis report" data show that as of October 2013, the number of private hospitals in China in the hospital industry has reached 44.73%, but the proportion of the number of its diagnosis and treatment is only 10.06%.

Private medical industry is considered a policy-sensitive industry, there is no doubt about it, but from the policy to encourage social capital to run a medical course, the earliest clear encouraging policy documents can be traced back to 1993, and ushered in the first stage of rapid development in 2002, the most recent policy favorable in 2010, since 2013 The most recent policy favor started in 2010, and since 2013, it has entered a climax, and started to touch on the core problems of some private medical institutions that are difficult to develop. In terms of the implementation of the effect, the amount of rapid development, but private medical institutions in the process of competition with public hospitals are still at a disadvantage, which is in stark contrast to Europe and the United States, and even Taiwan, where private institutions dominate the phenomenon.

From the experience of developed countries and Taiwan, encouraging social capital to run medical institutions is of great significance to alleviate the difficulty and high cost of medical treatment, therefore, in this round of public hospital reform, the state will encourage social capital to run medical institutions to an unprecedented height. The private medical industry report analyzes that, from the current policy direction, private medical institutions into the health insurance system, to solve the talent constraints of private medical institutions will be the future policy direction.

Overall, the outlook for the private medical industry is very good and promising.