Private hospital

A private hospital is a hospital not owned by the government, including for-profits and non-profits. Funding is by patients themselves (“self-pay”), by insurers, or by foreign embassies. Private hospitals are commonly part, albeit in varying degrees, of the majority of healthcare systems around the world.

The clinical effectiveness of surgery for degenerative cervical radiculopathy performed in public and private hospitals was equivalent to 12 months after surgery ¹⁾.