Private Health Forum 2023

Hungarian healthcare is under transformation, and actors are trying to adapt to the new matrix, that is, who will/can play what role in the future. In the meantime, in the new macroeconomic environment, companies are recalculating due to higher energy costs and the fall in purchasing power due to the economic slowdown. A big question is what will happen to consolidation in such a situation and how single companies and company groups can be evaluated.

The largest private healthcare providers are enjoying strong and stable growth with continued increases in care fees, building on sustained demand, but the energy crisis, rising wage costs, and faltering purchasing power are increasingly eating into their profits. And if all this were not enough, it is also becoming more and more expensive to finance operations and expansion, and the publicly funded healthcare system is being reformed. Those who can become stronger in this difficult situation might even take it to the next level in the next few years in the private healthcare market, while the rest will face serious challenges in an increasingly competitive environment.

Employers, employees, state, insurers, private service providers, care managers, intermediaries and patient path managers. They make the healthcare system work, we depend on each other. By allowing private healthcare to operate at this level, and with the public making significant contributions to healthcare through private spending, the public sector is alleviated and even contributions are left in the system. How can this be brought under control, even by encouraging private financing, with a kind of self-care approach?

If we have money, high technology is at our disposal. Technology, modern tools, and AI-enabled systems alone are not enough. The relationship between the doctor and the patient is still at the centre.

Be our guests for a glass of champagne after the program, and don't miss the opportunity to network with the participants and speakers!