Private bed loss to cost hospitals €111m
14th Nov 2006, 08:47 GMT
Government plans to transfer fee-paying patients from public hospitals into 10 new centres to be developed on State land by the private sector will cost more than €111 million a year in lost revenue from health insurance companies, a new Department of Health analysis has found.
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