The debt-ridden Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical Centre (CUHKMC) cut the prices of more than 1,000 service items, or around one-fifth of those available, this month to help attract more patients.<\/p>\n
The private hospital said on Monday that the price cuts ranged from 2 per cent to \u201cdouble digits\u201d, but declined to reveal the full percentage range, instead noting the move covered highly used services such as urology, ophthalmology, endoscopy, radiology and pathology.<\/p>\n
The move is part of the first phase of the hospital\u2019s service assessment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe at CUHKMC hope to be a business with conscience when it comes to pricing, and so everyone can trust us,\u201d said Dr Chung Kin-lai, who took over as the hospital\u2019s CEO in August.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope the public will trust us as a reliable hospital. Our fees and charges are not excessive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chung said he had received negative reviews that called the hospital\u2019s prices very expensive and unreasonable in certain cases, while some complained of \u201csurprise bills\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debt-ridden Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical Centre (CUHKMC) cut the prices of more than 1,000 service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[5734,94427,4144,94433,94432,94428,18,94430,94434,94431,135,475,474,21355,19,17,94429,5,2907,94435,7345,21351,52608],"class_list":{"0":"post-163386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-breast-surgery","10":"tag-chemotherapy","11":"tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-medical-centre","12":"tag-cuhkmc","13":"tag-dr-chung-kin-lai","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-endoscopy","16":"tag-gastroscopy","17":"tag-gynaecology","18":"tag-health","19":"tag-health-care","20":"tag-healthcare","21":"tag-hong-kong-jockey-club","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-mandy-ma-hoi-wan","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-ophthalmology","27":"tag-orthopaedics","28":"tag-pathology","29":"tag-scmp","30":"tag-urology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115494530860881024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}