Private healthcare prices becoming more transparent but further progress needed, warns PHIN

More than 4,500 consultants in the UK submitted their fees

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New data allows patients to compare medical fees before seeking treatment

New information published earlier this month by the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), an independent not-for-profit organisation, will help patients to compare medical fees before seeking treatment, including regional differences in price. However, PHIN warns that medical fees are just one part of the total price of private healthcare, and that there's still work to do 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 pr...

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