Title

Health Services Pricing In Turkey

Keywords

Consumer Price Index; Health care cost; Health care prices; Pricing strategy; Turkey

Abstract

One of the most important and complex decisions that public services managers have to make is pricing. This is especially difficult within public health care because pricing decisions are influenced by a myriad of ideological, political, economic and professional arguments. In Turkey the majority of health care services are provided under public auspice; however, recent changes in governmental policy have led to increased competition among hospitals in both the public and private sector. Therefore, all institutions are being watched and remain open to government scrutiny and regulation. The aim of the study is to analyze how the private and governmental hospitals determine pricing or the actual cost of services in Turkey. Also, comparisons are made between health services expenditures and the Consumer Price Index with suggestions provided for public and private hospital managers in regard to the general cost of health services. © 2000 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

6-1-2000

Publication Title

Health Marketing Quarterly

Volume

17

Issue

4

Number of Pages

21-36

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1300/J026v17n04_02

Socpus ID

0034564473 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0034564473

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