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":263201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,2347,63,130636,16780,154296,154295,154292,50559,154297,154294,137,500,72355,154293,44,27391,154298,39767,15216,80162],"class_list":["post-263200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-breast-surgery","tag-chemotherapy","tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-medical-centre","tag-cuhkmc","tag-dr-chung-kin-lai","tag-endoscopy","tag-gastroscopy","tag-gynaecology","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hong-kong-jockey-club","tag-mandy-ma-hoi-wan","tag-news","tag-ophthalmology","tag-orthopaedics","tag-pathology","tag-scmp","tag-urology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}