Patho and pharma are important sources of profit for most hospitals. That’s why hospitals won’t allow outside medicine, you need to purchase from their own pharmacy while you were admitted.
The price cap was very severe for hospitals & pharmacies (which seems excellent for patients). For example decade back one tab named Femera from Novartis was costing 200/tablet which is now 42/tablet. An earlier typical cancer patient may have required 1-5 lakhs of medicine every 6 months. They do PET CT, Dr prescribes medicine and many patients need to continue for a lifetime or till they cure completely.
Numbers are from memory, hence take them approximately.
Does anyone have revenue/profit share of patho, radio and pharmacy in the overall P&L of hospitals? if so please share.
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