The Private Hospital Sector in South Africa.

1. The Private Hospital Sector in South Africa. Costs and comparisons

2. The Private Hospital Sector in SA Comparisons with public sector, medical schemes and even hotels from official data sources. Towards a cost index for private hospitals to measure input costs on a neutral scale.

3. Something about this presentation Last year after this presentation was done here at the HASA conference, I was called a public relations exercise by people like Mr. Van den Heever from the CMS. He claimed that the figures we used were �biased� and that we said just said what Private hospitals had told us to say. I decided to get statistics from sources outside of our firm, as well as outside the private hospital industry. Statistics South Africa and National Treasury were very helpful as were the CMS annual reports on the web. None of these sources can be accused of bias as they are not motivated by financial payments from the private hospital industry.

4. Private Hospital sector inflation vs. CPIX: Official Inflation rates from Statistics South Africa