Most non-public hospitals in Poland oriented towards public funding - February 2012

The vast majority of non-public hospitals in Poland provide services under contracts with the National Health Fund (NFZ). The number of Poles who can afford to pay for costly hospital procedures out of their own pockets remains small, whereas NFZ contracts guarantee a certain level of revenues and patient numbers. That is why even those private hospitals whose original focus was exclusively on commercial patients (e.g. Medicover) decide to enter into contracts with the Fund for part of their services.

Of all non-public hospitals examined in our new report, ”Non-public hospitals market in Poland 2012”, just one in ten did not have a contract with the NFZ for hospital care in 2011. The proportion of hospitals with NFZ contracts varied from 75% in Swietokrzyskie to 100% in Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Lubelskie, Opolskie and Warminsko-Mazurskie. The combined value of their hospital-care contracts with the Fund exceeded PLN 3bn (€680m), i.e. PLN 9.5m (€2.2m) per hospital.