Private healthcare market in Poland: over PLN 34bn in 2013 - July 2011

According to our latest report entitled “Private healthcare market in Poland 2011. Development forecasts for 2011-2013”, the value of the private healthcare segment increased by about 4% year-on-year in 2010, to PLN 28.8bn (€7.2bn). The private healthcare market is expected to be worth PLN 34.4bn (€8.6bn) in 2013. This figure includes payments for medicines and medical equipment, rehabilitation services, diagnostic tests and visits to doctors paid out of patients’ pockets, informal payments, subscriptions offered by medical companies, private health insurance sold by insurance companies and other charges covered directly by patients.

Adverse developments arising from the economic crisis led to a slowdown affecting all segments of the private healthcare market in 2010 compared to 2009. But it should be noted that growth remained positive across all the segments. The fastest growth, in the double-digit range, was shown by the segment of medical subscriptions and health insurance, while the segment of payments for medicines and medical equipment rose at the slowest rate.