‘Big 5 hospital’ total annual consultation fee of KRW 2.7 trillion.. Increasing outpatient share to 43%

It is estimated that total annual consultation fee of a so-called ‘big 5’ high-level general hospitals ranges from between KRW 360 billion and KRW 770 billion.

Each hospital only from the five high-level general hospitals takes up 4.5 ~ 9.6% of the big 5’s total consultation fee in Korea. Some hospitals have shown a steady increase in their total outpatient consultation fee with 42%.

The so-c...