What actually makes up a private doctor's bill? Recommendations, the five parts of one bill, fourteen fee schedules that cannot be compared, and eight questions to ask, 2026

TL;DR A private outpatient bill has at least five parts: the consultation fee, drugs, injection and procedure charges, laboratory and imaging charges, and dressings and materials. All fourteen licensed private hospitals (one of them — Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central — is in fact a primary care clinic under a hospital rather than the hospital's own outpatient department; for convenience this article still says "fourteen", and says so only once) publish an outpatient consultation fee. For a daytime general practice consultation the lowest is $270 at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan (that schedule's own effective date 1 August 2026) and the highest $590 at Matilda International Hospital (effective 1 February 2026); the highest overnight figure seen is $1,500 at Union Hospital for 02:00–07:59 (that section updated 15 November 2023). But that set of figures is not a market snapshot: the fourteen schedules print effective dates running from 1 January 2025 all the way to 1 August 2026, Union's section stops at 15 November 2023, and the St Paul's and Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central pages print no effective date at all — so part of that spread is simply old against new, not a price difference at one moment. On the public side, the Hospital Authority charges eligible persons $250 per specialist clinic attendance and $150 at a family medicine clinic (effective 1 January 2026). "How much is one visit to a doctor" still has no answer until you have asked what is included — twelve of the licensed private hospitals' schedules state in terms that the consultation fee excludes drugs, laboratory tests and procedures, while the Code of Professional Conduct separately allows a composite price of "consultation plus basic medicine for a certain number of days". And one more layer has to be stated first: several hospitals print beneath their own schedules that the prices there are for reference only and that the actual charge depends on the individual case and the attending doctor — so even a published price is, in the provider's own eyes, not a price. This article sets out the first-hand published prices that can be found, the right to ask that Chapter 12 of the Code of Professional Conduct gives you, and a checklist for asking. It will not tell you the "going rate" for a private consultation, because no current official or representative survey has been found that publishes such a distribution.

#Why "how much is one visit to a private doctor" has no answer

Because "one visit" is not a unit of charging — a private outpatient bill is assembled from several separately priced parts, and the Code of Professional Conduct permits more than one way of bundling them.

First what each part is, and prices after.

The consultation fee is the charge for seeing the doctor, being questioned and examined, and having a prescription written. A first attendance (initial) and a follow-up can be two different prices. Drugs are the cost of medicine dispensed by the clinic itself, and may be charged by item, by number of days, or already included in the consultation fee. Injection and procedure charges cover injections, wound cleaning, changes of dressing, catheterisation and the like performed by a nurse or doctor, and appear on fee schedules as "nursing procedures". Laboratory and imaging charges cover blood tests, urine tests, X-rays and endoscopy; endoscopy itself divides again, the procedure fee, the anaesthesia fee and the pathology fee being three separate sums. Dressings and materials cover gauze, catheters and equipment materials, and are usually listed separately from "procedure fees" on a schedule.

⚠️ Three similar but different words, to be separated before reading on. A quotation is a charge you ask for and the doctor gives. A budget estimate is the written estimate a private hospital provides under the pilot scheme for 30 specified treatments or procedures, and does not apply to ordinary outpatient care. A package is a lump sum, and what it includes is for the provider to define. The three are not interchangeable.

And one further distinction matters particularly at hospital level: an in-house or resident doctor against a visiting doctor. The first is employed by the hospital and their fee is printed on the hospital's schedule; the second is not an employee of the hospital, and what they charge the hospital does not publish. That distinction reappears below.

⚠️ For anyone about to move to private care, or taking a family member to a private specialist for the first time: the question to ask is not "how much" but "of these five parts, which ones will appear on your bill".

#Why private charges have no set price: it starts with an audit report of 2012

The transparency of private healthcare charges in Hong Kong is a road that began with a recommendation from the Audit Commission, was trialled by the Government as a voluntary scheme, and was written into legislation whose relevant provisions have still not commenced — and outpatient consultation fees were never the target of any of it.

The starting point is the Audit Commission's Director of Audit's Report No. 59 of October 2012. Note 7 of the Health Bureau's paper to the Legislative Council Panel on Health Services of May 2025 (CB(3)639/2025(03)) describes it: the report reviewed the regulatory control of private hospitals and suggested that the Government should explore ways to enhance the transparency of fees levied by private hospitals, such as requiring private hospitals to ensure that every patient is informed, prior to or upon admission, of the estimated total fees likely to be incurred, and enacting laws on transparency in medical fees [Note 1].

In October 2016 the Government, with the Hong Kong Private Hospitals Association, launched the Pilot Programme on Enhancing Price Transparency of Private Hospitals. The Government's press release of 29 September 2016 states that all members of the Association — the eleven private hospitals of the time — would implement three measures on a voluntary basis: introducing budget estimates; publishing on their websites fee schedules for major charge items; and publishing on their websites statistics of actual billed charges for common surgeries and procedures [Note 2].

In one sentence: voluntary, private hospitals, specified surgeries or procedures. Three limiting conditions, not one of which covers your visit to a clinic. The Health Bureau's paper of May 2025 also states that the scheme has been revised several times since and that all 14 private hospitals now participate on a voluntary basis — that is, participation grew from eleven to fourteen and the character remains voluntary.

As for legislation: the Private Healthcare Facilities Ordinance (Cap. 633) was passed by the Legislative Council on 15 November 2018, hospital licensing commenced on 1 January 2021, and applications for clinic licences and for exemption certificates for small practice clinics have been accepted since 13 October 2025. On the transparency part, the Consumer Council's press release of 6 March 2025 puts it plainly: the provisions of the Ordinance relating to price transparency have not yet commenced.

On progress, the Legislative Council Secretariat Research Office's Research Brief ISE03/2026 of 2 March 2026 records that the Government briefed the Panel on Health Services on its legislative proposals in May 2025 and that the subsidiary legislation was expected to be introduced in 2026.

⚠️ Do not misread this: Cap. 633 itself is in force — hospital licensing has been running for five years — and what has not commenced is the part of it dealing with price transparency, the necessary subsidiary regulations not having been made either. Everything this article says about sections 61 to 63 is taken from the Government's and the Legislative Council's descriptions of those provisions and not from the text of the provisions themselves; that is said once.

⚠️ For anyone who assumes the Government regulates private charges: what is regulated is licensing and safety, charge levels are outside the scope, and even the transparency regulations have not commenced.

#How one private outpatient bill is worked out, box by box

There are two mechanisms. First, a private clinic may quote in two entirely different but equally lawful ways — a composite price including medicine, or item by item. Second, at hospital level the price of the same thing is repriced by room class and by time of day, and the doctor's half is no exception.

Where the composite form comes from, first. Appendix H of the Medical Council's Code of Professional Conduct carries a table setting out what information may be disseminated through which medium. The default position first: item 15, "Range of fees", is marked "No" in all three media columns.

Two sentences are printed beneath that table, quoted at [Note 3]: "Yes" denotes permissible information and "No" denotes impermissible information; and note c provides that a range of consultation fees, or a composite fee including consultation and basic medicine for a certain number of days, may be displayed.

That is to say: on signboards, stationery, and announcements in mass media and social media, a "range of fees" is by default information that may not be disseminated; note c opens an exception on top of that default, permitting the display of a range of consultation fees, or a composite fee — consultation plus basic medicine for a certain number of days. The channel through which that exception is actually exercised is the clinic "Service Information Notice" described in Appendix C of the Code. So a composite price is not a grey practice but a named form of quotation within the Code; but to see one you generally have to reach the clinic's door, and will not meet it in an advertisement.

The other form — item by item — can be seen on St Teresa's Hospital's schedule, and finely divided. That hospital's Common Chargeable Items schedule (updated 1 July 2026) states three times, in three different places, that the prices listed are for reference only and do not include the doctor's fee, drugs and related material costs, and the basic charges of the endoscopy centre are expressly stated to exclude the doctor's fee, monitored anaesthesia charges, pathology charges, drugs and materials, additional instruments and equipment, and any additional treatment or procedure such as polypectomy [Note 4].

In one sentence: under that model, what the institution's schedule prices is the facility and the procedure, and the doctor's own sum is a separate bill.

That fork is why "how much is one visit to a doctor" cannot be answered. Two bills both reading $550 may be one that already includes several days of basic medicine and one that is the consultation alone, with drugs, injections and dressings added item by item. Without asking what is included, two figures of $550 cannot be compared.

#On one published table, the doctor's fee and the hospital's fee are two columns

Matilda International Hospital's outpatient fees page prints this most plainly: on the same row of a procedure, the left-hand column is the hospital's charge and the right-hand column is the doctor's. The two column headings on that table read, word for word, "Hospital Fee" and "Doctor Fee".

But beneath the section that table belongs to (the page's 24-hour Outpatient Care), the hospital prints two remarks of its own, quoted in full at [Note 5]: the charges above refer to consultation fees only and exclude minor procedures, medication, laboratory services and the like, and the total charge is subject to the attending doctor's discretion and depends on the hour of service and the patient's condition; and outside office hours (Monday to Saturday 20:00–07:59, and all day on Sundays and public holidays) there is an additional doctor's consultation fee.

That is: for every figure on this version, the hospital itself says the total charge is subject to the attending doctor's discretion. So the sum below is "what the table prints", not "what you will pay".

A worked sum (example one): one set of stitches, two bills. The hospital charge for suturing is $1,200 and the doctor's charge $4,500; the ratio, $4,500 divided by $1,200, is 3.75; the two added, $1,200 plus $4,500, is $5,700, of which the doctor's half is $4,500. Units check: both figures are on the same row of the same fees page with the same effective date (1 February 2026), counted the same way, so they may be added. But it has to be read with the remark above: the table states that the total charge is subject to the attending doctor's discretion and depends on the hour and the condition, so $5,700 is two cells of a table added together, not a quotation.

The meaning of that row is not the amount but the structure: for the same thing, the hospital and the doctor are two bills, and they can differ several times over. Several rows leave the doctor's column blank (simple dressings and injections, for example), which is to say that on that table those items have a price only on the hospital's half.

This "two columns" form is not confined to one hospital. Four others do the same thing under different names: Canossa Hospital's specialist outpatient clinic charges a "Facility Fee" besides the consultation fee and prints "doctor consultation fee to be billed separately"; Union Hospital's specialist services charge a "Registration Fee" of $310 plus a "Consultation Fee (Depends on Consultation Sessions) $800 up"; Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas) prints 「醫生費另計 Doctor's fee excluded」 beside the $300 row for an unscheduled session; and Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road charges a facility fee for special consultations by doctors who are not resident there.

#Room class changes not only the room rate but the doctor's fee

The first-hand evidence in this box is the hardest of all. Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital publishes an "In-house Doctors Ward Round Fee" schedule setting different ceilings for the same service by ward category.

A sentence in Chinese is printed beneath that schedule, in the schedule's own words: 「有關收費只適用於因首次/延長時間診症而確診或制訂治理方案，其他情況則收取基本巡房費。」 — the charge applies only where a diagnosis is made or a treatment plan drawn up at a first or extended consultation, and otherwise the basic ward round fee is charged (our rendering). The same remark continues, its English stating that the prices above are for reference only, that actual charges will vary according to individual circumstances, and that prices not indicated will be provided upon request; and the Chinese adds 「上述收費並不包括藥費。」 [Note 6]

That is: these figures are described by the hospital itself as for reference only, with the actual charge varying according to individual circumstances, and they do not include drug costs. So the sentence below has to be read with that qualification attached.

In one sentence: for the same in-house doctor on the same ward round, the schedule prints a ceiling of $2,000 a day in a general ward and $6,000 a day in a private room — a threefold difference whose source is your room, not your illness; and that threefold figure is the ratio between two cells of a table, not a promised price.

Two hospitals say the same thing in their own words. The English of Matilda's room rates page states that if a patient requests transfer to an upgraded room within 48 hours after a procedure, charges including room rates, ancillary fees and doctor fees will be adjusted to the higher rate [Note 7]. The English of Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan's room rates page lists in terms the charges that "vary according to room category", the first item on the list being the physician [Note 8].

The Consumer Council had a direct comment on the practice on 6 March 2025: doctor fees and hospital fees are often adjusted according to ward class, the rationale behind that linkage is unclear, and some consumers regard it as unfair, taking the view that the same treatment should not be charged differently merely because of a difference in accommodation (our rendering of the Chinese).

Among the fourteen hospitals' schedules found for this article, not one publishes a rationale for that linkage. The practice has first-hand documents; the reason does not.

And a common misreading should be corrected in passing. The "152%" spread often quoted online comes from the same Consumer Council study, and the original reads: for instance, the 50th percentile charge for inpatient haemorrhoidectomy ranged across private hospitals from HK$33,881 to HK$85,387, a difference of 152.0% (our rendering of the Chinese). The very next sentence of the same paragraph is the Council's own qualification of that figure: although charges may differ because of the patient's condition, the quality of service, and the choice of doctor, medical facility or treatment method, the finding also reflects the importance of shopping around.

That is to say, the figure measures the spread of 50th-percentile total charges for inpatient haemorrhoidectomy between private hospitals — one inpatient surgical bill, not a clinic consultation fee; and on the Council's own account, how much of the spread is pure price difference and how much is condition, service quality and the choice of doctor or facility or treatment method is something that study did not separate. Using it to describe how far clinic consultation fees differ within a district is taking it to the wrong place.

⚠️ For the regular follow-up patient who thinks "it was this much last time": room class, time of day, and whether a procedure was added — change any one of them and the cell on the schedule is already different; and where room class is concerned, the doctor's half moves with it.

#You have a right to ask the price — but how hard does the Code put it?

You have the right to be told the charges before receiving services, and a doctor who refuses or fails to tell you may be guilty of professional misconduct — on that the English and the Chinese agree. But the two versions differ in force, and the Chinese version itself states that the English governs.

Sections 12.1 and 12.4 of Chapter 12, "Fees", of the Medical Council's Code of Professional Conduct (revised October 2022) are quoted in both languages at [Note 9]. This article does not reconcile the difference in force between the two versions; it sets them out:

And the Chinese version prints a line of its own: 「(此專業守則的內容以英文本為準)」 — the English text governs the content of this Code (our rendering).

In one sentence: the Chinese reads as a set of hard obligations (必須, 須, 不得) and the English as a series of "should", while the Chinese itself says the English governs. So the Chinese "必須" should not be used to assert a hard duty the English does not support. What can actually be stood on is the consequence both versions state alike: where a patient properly requests it and the doctor refuses or fails to make the charges known, that may be professional misconduct. That sentence carries the same force in both versions.

Section 12.3 deals with excessive fees; the Chinese provides that a doctor must not charge or collect an excessive fee, and sets out three principles by which the Council decides: the difficulty, cost and special circumstances of the service and the time, skill and experience required; the fee customarily charged in Hong Kong for similar services; and the doctor's own experience and ability in providing the service [Note 10].

Note the second of those: one of the yardsticks for deciding whether a fee is excessive is "the fee customarily charged in Hong Kong for similar services" — and no official or representative survey has ever published that customary fee. The Code has a standard; the public has no distribution data.

As for the prices posted at a clinic door, Appendix C of the Code has a very practical requirement about the Service Information Notice: a doctor may display, on the exterior of the office, a notice bearing the fee schedules and the medical services provided, and must ensure that the displayed consultation fees truly reflect the normal charges [Note 11]. So the notice at the door is a starting point for asking, not decoration; and it is where the Appendix H note c exception described above is actually exercised.

A contrast: the dentists' side is drafted differently. The fourth annex to Legislative Council paper CB(3)639/2025(03) also reproduces the corresponding provisions of the Dental Council of Hong Kong, and the English word there is "must": a notice must be exhibited in the waiting area of the clinic informing patients of their right to ask before treatment for a quotation of the fees involved; consultation fees must be made known to patients on request; and in the course of investigation and treatment all charges must be made known on request before the provision of services [Note 12].

In other words, on the same point — that the price must be given when the patient asks, and that the clinic must post a notice — the English of the dentists' code says "must" and the English of the doctors' code says "should". The two professions' texts differ in force to begin with.

⚠️ For anyone who feels awkward about asking the price: the Code says in terms that the clinic is to post a notice telling you that you have this right. Asking is what the system expects you to do.

#All fourteen private hospitals publish a consultation fee, so why is there still no "going rate"?

Because "somebody has published a price" and "somebody has measured the market" are two different things. The consultation fees the fourteen licensed private hospitals each publish are all set out here; but those fourteen figures are not a sample, are not from one moment, and are not comparable like with like — so adding them up still does not make a going rate.

Two things first, kept apart.

One, what still does not exist: an official or representative survey of private outpatient consultation fees. As at this article's information date, no current official survey has been found publishing the distribution of private general or specialist outpatient consultation fees in Hong Kong. Three reasons for that gap can be pointed at.

(1) The Government says in terms that it does not regulate price levels. The Secretary for Food and Health's written reply to the Legislative Council of 8 May 2019 (LCQ4) states that as private medical service is by its very nature no different from other business transactions between consenting parties where prices are determined by market force, the Government will not regulate the price level or price structure of services provided by private healthcare facilities [Note 13]. No regulation, and so no price statistics collected for the purpose.

(2) The transparency reform never aimed at outpatient consultation fees. Note 5 of the Health Bureau's Legislative Council paper of May 2025 states that at present most medical practitioners in private practice provide primary healthcare services in Hong Kong, that the relevant reform is being spearheaded by the Primary Healthcare Commission, and that the measures addressing price transparency of private healthcare services will focus on secondary and tertiary healthcare, mainly targeting private hospitals and specialist doctors [Note 14]. Which is to say that primary care doctors, the great majority of private practice, are not among the main targets of this round of transparency measures.

(3) Even the day procedure centre layer has no published prices yet. The Consumer Council, 6 March 2025: it found that day procedure centres were not comprehensive in disclosing price information, and that of 20 day procedure centres sampled, 15 provided no online fee schedule for specified treatments and 1 had no website at all (our rendering of the Chinese). The same press release states that neither the Ordinance nor the Code of Practice for Day Procedure Centres requires them to publish past charge statistics.

In one sentence: the published charge statistics that exist today cover only 30 specified treatments or procedures at private hospitals; of 20 day procedure centres sampled, 15 have no online fee schedule; and at clinic level there is no publication mechanism at all.

Two, what can now be done and could not before: setting out, hospital by hospital, the outpatient consultation fees the fourteen hospitals publish themselves. Every row below is a figure from that hospital's own schedule, and the third column is the effective or update date that document states for itself. These are individual institutions' self-reported prices, not a sample and not a market level, and this article makes no comparison and passes no judgement on which is cheaper or better.

A note on row 4: this is Gleneagles Hospital's own price, not its clinic's. Entry 4 on the Department of Health's pilot-programme list is officially "Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong" — the hospital itself. Its own 24-hour Outpatient and Emergency rate card (effective 1 July 2026) states: general outpatient, Monday to Friday 09:00–19:59, $400. Gleneagles also runs a primary-care clinic in Central, Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central, whose General Practitioner Consultation is $550 — that is a clinic price, not the hospital outpatient department's, and neither this table nor our outpatient directory tool carries it. (This cell was corrected on 29 August 2026: it previously read $420. The rate card prints two "Outpatient Consultation Fee" columns side by side whose headings extract identically from the text layer; the difference is visible only by looking at the PDF — the left column's figures are struck through, and the right column carries a highlighted banner reading "With effect from 1 July 2026", while cells whose price did not change, such as Saturday 13:00–23:59 at $600, carry no strikethrough. The left column is the superseded price; the right is current.)

Three things can be read straight off that table.

First, the published daytime fees run from $270 to $590. The lowest cell is Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan's $270; the highest is Matilda International Hospital's $590. But the two are not prices on the same day: the $270 schedule states 1 Aug 2026, and the $590 one states 1 Feb 2026. The oldest document in the table is Union Hospital's, which stops at Latest Update 15 Nov 2023 — already close to three years old on the day it was retrieved — while Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas) and St. Paul's Hospital print no effective date at all. So $270–$590 is not the distribution of a market at one moment; it is fourteen documents of differing vintages set side by side. How much of that spread is price and how much is age, no source has ever separated.

Second, these are net consultation fees. Each hospital states on its own schedule that the fee excludes drugs, tests and procedures. Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan's schedule prints "Above charges excluding doctor procedures, drugs, supplies, investigations, etc."; Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas)'s prints "Medication, injection, dressing, laboratory examination, x-ray, operation/procedure, documentation/printing are NOT included in the consultation fee."

And not merely "excluding" — several state that the figure itself is not a fixed price. 6 hospitals say on their own schedules that the published price is for reference only and the actual charge depends on the case or on the attending doctor: Canossa Hospital (Caritas), HKSH Eastern Medical Centre, Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Matilda International Hospital, St. Teresa's Hospital. So the table above cannot be read across, and no single row should be read as a quotation either.

Third, the time band is a hard axis. At every hospital that publishes bands, night costs more than day. The highest published overnight cell is Union Hospital's 02:00–07:59 at $1,500 (that section: Latest Update 15 Nov 2023); at the same hospital, on the same weekday, in the same service, 09:00–17:59 is $420 — meaning that within one day, at one hospital, for one service, the published consultation fee can go from $420 to $1,500.

The table below restores every published band, hospital by hospital. Of the fourteen, 11 publish fees segmented by hour of day; the rest publish a single flat figure or segment by day type only, and the table says so where that is the case. Together with the separate services each hospital publishes on the same schedule — urgent care centres, resident paediatricians, specialist registration fees — it runs to 108 rows.

On the specialist side the published range is wider still, and prices are beginning to be split by the doctor's grade. The highest published specialist consultation fee is the $5,000 at the "Specialist / Assistant Professor" grade of CUHK Medical Centre's genetics and genomics (paediatrics) specialty (that specialty's published range being $3,000–$5,000, effective 1 August 2026; the "Professorial Grade" cell on the same row is blank — that is, this specialty has published no professorial-grade fee at all, and the $5,000 is the top of the non-professorial end rather than the professorial price).

But the low end must not be casually read as "specialists always cost more than general practice". The "specialist outpatient department doctors' charges" table on St Paul's Hospital's specialist outpatient page and the "outpatient department in-house doctors' charges" table on its 24-hour outpatient (general) page carry exactly the same four figures.

The remarks on the specialist outpatient version also state 「如欲查詢有關客席專科醫生時間及收費，煩請與本中心職員聯絡。」 — for the sessions and charges of visiting specialists, please contact the centre's staff (our rendering).

That is: on that hospital's published schedules an in-house doctor's consultation fee does not differ according to whether you are seen in general practice or a specialty; the specialist premium appears only in another set of charges at centre level (in-house doctors at the eye centre, ENT centre, integrated specialty centre and surgery centre are all published at $680) and on the visiting doctor side ($680 up to $1,000 up). So reading "specialist consultation fees run from a few hundred to five thousand" crosses not only different hospitals, different documents and different dates but also the fact that "specialist" does not mean the same thing on different schedules.

CUHK Medical Centre is the only hospital found here that publishes consultation fees in two columns by the doctor's grade, the two headings reading, word for word, Specialist 專科醫生 /Assistant Professor 助理教授 and Professorial Grade 教授級職級. The same caution applies: the specialist fees of different hospitals are separated by different hospitals, different specialties, different documents and different effective dates, and cannot be drawn into a single "specialist going rate".

#A published price is not a price you can work from

There is first-hand evidence for this, and it comes from the Chinese and English versions of one hospital's own page. The remarks beneath Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road's outpatient schedule say, in English, that the charges above refer to consultation fees only and exclude minor procedures, medication, laboratory services and the like, and that the total charge is subject to the attending doctor's and therapist's discretion and depends on the patient's condition; the Chinese says 「上述診金僅供參考，所需費用須視乎病人實際情況及個別醫生和治療師而定。」 Both originals are at [Note 16].

The first sentences on the two sides are not two versions of one sentence: the English first sentence limits the scope to consultation fees, and the Chinese first sentence tells you these fees are "for reference only". This article reconciles neither and quotes each from the page in its own language. But note that the English second sentence and the latter half of the Chinese are the same thing: the total charge is subject to the attending doctor and therapist and depends on the patient's condition. So the substantive difference between the versions is only whether the words "for reference only" are printed — neither version tells you that the cell on the table is what you will pay. The practical effect is direct: a published price is not a price you can work from.

There is a second version difference of the same kind. The Chinese of Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital's ward charges schedule prints a closing line: 「如中、英文版本之間有任何歧義，概以英文版本為準。」 — in case of any discrepancy between the Chinese and English versions, the English shall prevail (our rendering). The English of that same schedule does not print that line — which is to say that only the Chinese reader is told that the English governs. (The hospital's other schedules print the line in both languages.)

#The visiting doctor's fee: thirteen do not publish it, and only St Paul's is an exception

Of the fourteen licensed private hospitals, thirteen publish no visiting doctor consultation fee on their schedules; what a hospital publishes is its own in-house doctors' fees. St Paul's Hospital is the only exception — and only half an exception. Its specialist outpatient main table still prints "Please contact our staff for charges and session of Visiting Doctor."

That is, on that main table St Paul's is like the other thirteen in publishing no visiting doctor fee. But that "ask the staff" applies only to the main table — St Paul's does publish, at centre level (the eye centre, ENT centre, integrated specialty centre and surgery centre), the charges of visiting doctors and honorary consultants, item by item: ENT centre visiting doctors from $680; integrated specialty centre visiting doctors, dermatology $1,000, endocrinology and diabetes from $800, neurology from $950, rheumatology from $1,000; surgery centre honorary consultants from $800. All of them are open-ended "from" prices, not fixed ones.

So the accurate statement is: of the fourteen, thirteen publish no visiting doctor consultation fee at all; St Paul's Hospital does publish, but only at centre level and only as open-ended "from" prices, while its specialist outpatient main table still tells you to ask the staff.

Hong Kong Baptist Hospital's medical report fees page also states that insurance claim forms and medical reports for patients under the care of its visiting doctors will not be handled and that the attending doctors should be contacted directly [Note 17]. And Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road charges a facility fee for special consultations by doctors not resident there: from 1 October 2021, a special consultation by a doctor not resident at the hospital carries a facility fee of $500 per 30 minutes, with a further "facility fee – procedure" of $1,500 where the consultation or treatment involves special equipment [Note 18].

That is: the hospital's half has a price ($500 per 30 minutes, plus $1,500), and the doctor's half has none. Which is exactly what the Health Bureau said itself in its Legislative Council paper of May 2025: save for the express provisions in the Ordinance, there is currently no robust mechanism under the existing codes of practice or the service deeds and land leases between the Government and private hospitals that may effectively regulate the price transparency of private healthcare services, particularly when involving visiting doctors who are not employed by private hospitals [Note 19].

Will there be publication on the private side in future? The Legislative Council Secretariat Research Office's ISE03/2026 describes the proposed statutory arrangements, the first of which is the only one that reaches clinics directly: requiring private healthcare facilities (including private hospitals, day procedure centres and clinics) to make available price information through a fee schedule in a specified format clearly setting out all "Basic Service Items"; and the fee schedule should, as far as practicable, state fixed prices (for example HK$300 per outpatient consultation), failing which a price range should be provided [Note 20]. (The "HK$300" in that document is an example used to illustrate the format, not a survey result or reference level for Hong Kong outpatient charges.)

In other words, if the proposed regulations commence, clinics too will have to publish a fee schedule in a specified format, and give a range where they cannot fix a price. As at this article's information date, those regulations have not commenced.

⚠️ For anyone who searches "how much is a private consultation" and finds a pile of contradictory figures: not one of them is an official distribution statistic, because no such thing exists. The fourteen rows above are genuinely published first-hand prices, but they do not even share effective dates — so the real tool for judging whether a charge is reasonable is still the itemised quotation in your own hand, with its effective date asked for.

#A worked sum: for one private outpatient visit, what do the published parts add up to?

The method is to add only the prices the provider publishes itself, and then say plainly which boxes have no published price — because the boxes with no published price are the ones that catch people out.

A worked sum (example two): one clinic, one visit, everything from the same page of self-reported prices. Using Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central's own published outpatient prices (that page states no effective date; retrieved 1 August 2026): general practitioner consultation $550; an influenza vaccination at the same visit $450 (the page prints "*while stocks last" against that item); a cervical cytology test at the same visit $430 (the page prints it as a "Special price"). The published parts come to $550 plus $450 plus $430, that is $1,430. Units check: all three are charged per occasion, with nothing counted by day or by week, so no conversion is needed.

So $1,430 is not "a bill" but "the sum of the boxes that have been published". That distinction is the point of the whole article.

A worked sum (example three): outpatient endoscopy, where the published figure is a basic charge and not a total. Using the outpatient column of St Teresa's Hospital's Common Chargeable Items (updated 1 July 2026): gastroscopy $1,785 plus colonoscopy $2,380 is $4,165. Units check: both are in the out-patient column of the same schedule with the same revision date, so they may be added.

But the schedule itself states that this figure excludes the six items quoted above (the doctor's fee, monitored anaesthesia charges, pathology charges, drugs and materials, additional instruments and equipment, and any additional treatment or procedure such as polypectomy). Which is to say that if a polyp is found, removed and sent for pathology, $4,165 is no longer the base — and none of the three new sums (removal, pathology, the doctor's fee) has a price on that table.

And the next sentence of the same remark leaves even those two basic charges elastic, in the table's own words: 「(3) 實際收費需按照個案之複雜程度而定。」 — the actual charge is to be determined according to the complexity of the case (our rendering). The first sentence of the same remark also states that surcharges will be levied for emergency services or services required outside office hours. So $4,165 is not a hard floor of "at least this much": the hospital states that even those two basic charges depend on the complexity of the case, with a further surcharge for emergency or out-of-hours service, whose size that table does not give.

⚠️ Do not compare that figure with private hospitals' percentile charge statistics: those are total charges (doctor's fee plus hospital fee), and cover only standard-ward cases having a single procedure. The two are counted differently.

⚠️ For anyone about to have an endoscopy who has been given a verbal quotation of "a few thousand": ask whether that figure already includes anaesthesia, pathology and the doctor's fee. On the published schedules those three are three separate sums.

#Public charges as a benchmark: what do $250 and $150 buy, and at what cost?

Public charges are a set, published, capped reference point — but not a substitute for private care. What the two exchange is time.

Hospital Authority charges for eligible persons, effective 1 January 2026:

One change here has escaped many people: the two separate prices for a "first" and a "follow-up" specialist attendance have gone. The Government's before-and-after comparison of 25 March 2025 prints, on the "specialist outpatient (including allied health clinics)" row, two old prices on the "before" side — first attendance $135, follow-up $80 — and a single merged cell on the "after" side printing only $250. The Hospital Authority's current schedule likewise has one line only: specialist clinics, $250 per attendance. After the reform there is one figure and no second "follow-up price". This is the exact opposite of the private side, where a first attendance and a follow-up are usually two prices; on the public side they have been merged into one.

The second layer of protection: the annual charge cap. The Chinese and English of the Authority's page are at [Note 21]: with effect from 1 January 2026 the Hospital Authority establishes a second safety net, besides the medical fee waiving mechanism, by introducing a HK$10,000 cap on an eligible patient's annual spending on public medical fees and charges without requiring financial assessment.

That is, the ten-thousand-dollar cap requires no means test — but it also does not take effect automatically. The "eligibility" section of the same page has four items: the applicant must be an eligible person; the patient must have paid ten thousand dollars in cumulative "eligible medical fees and charges" within the year; there must be no outstanding eligible medical fees and charges owed to the Authority at the time of application; and the hospital services received must not have been determined by the Authority to be without clinical need [Note 22]. Even with all four met, the patient must still submit an application — patients who meet the criteria may submit an application via HA Go or at any hospital's shroff office once their cumulative valid annual spending has reached $10,000.

The application arrangements and scope are also stated: the annual application period opens on 1 January each year and closes on 31 March of the following year, with late applications not accepted; eligible medical fees include only bills issued between 1 January and 31 December of each year and paid in full at the time of application; a fresh application is required for each year; and self-financed drugs and medical devices are excluded [Note 23].

And once approved there is one more step that must not be missed — you have to say so at the moment of registration. The same page states that patients must declare at registration for medical services that the "annual charge cap" has been approved, so as to ensure that they need not pay eligible medical fees and charges. That is, even where a case has been approved, the patient must state at each registration that it has been, or the bill still has to be settled. Two further practical points on the same page: the assessment process normally takes 14 days; and before the result is announced the applicant must still pay all Authority bills issued from the date of application [Note 24].

So this "second safety net" is a door you have to open yourself, open again each year, and remember to mention at every registration: pay the ten thousand dollars first, apply before the deadline, and once approved still declare it at each registration, with bills issued during the assessment still to be settled, and self-financed drugs and medical devices not counted.

The private side has no equivalent. No annual cap, no common schedule, no waiver mechanism — those three are institutional protections particular to the public system, and are not a comparison of service quality.

The closest thing to a "reference level" among official figures is in fact on the public side. Besides its two sets of public charges for eligible and non-eligible persons, the Hospital Authority has a third: non-subsidised charges, that is, the set charged for private-patient service in public hospitals. The non-subsidised outpatient consultation charges effective 1 January 2026 (note 6) are: first attendance $1,090 to $2,580 per attendance, and follow-up $950 to $2,350 per attendance.

Why that set is worth noting is that the Government has said how it is set. The Government press release of 31 October 2025, issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority, states that charges for non-eligible persons will be adjusted based on the 2023-24 service cost levels, while fees for non-subsidised services will be adjusted based on cost recovery principles, with reference to market rates [Note 25].

Among the public sources found for this article, that $1,090–$2,580 and $950–$2,350 is the only outpatient consultation range published by a public body which acknowledges having had regard to market levels.

⚠️ But its scope has to be understood exactly, and it is not a "private going rate". It is the Hospital Authority's own non-subsidised charge, not the charge of any private clinic or private hospital, and not the result of any survey of the private market. Non-subsidised outpatient consultation charges exclude drugs and prostheses — note 6 states that drugs and prostheses are charged separately at cost or purchased by the patient — and exclude the diagnostic or therapeutic services listed in paragraphs 3 to 7 of the non-subsidised charges schedule in the Gazette (Gazette No. 44 of 2025). It is a range, not a price; the Authority publishes no breakdown of what each specialty within that range charges. Effective 1 January 2026; over the same period a specialist clinic attendance for an eligible person is $250 — the same institution, the same clinic, two sets of charges more than four times apart, and what differs is the subsidy, not the service.

The cost is time. The Authority's published waiting times for stable new specialist outpatient cases (statistical period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026): the median for stable new medicine cases runs across the seven clusters from 27 weeks (Hong Kong West) to 65 weeks (Kowloon Central); and in the same dataset the Authority's targets are a median within a fortnight for urgent new cases and within eight weeks for semi-urgent, while no target is published for stable new cases. (That table is divided according to the former cluster boundaries; the same document notes that the Hong Kong East and Hong Kong West clusters merged into the Hong Kong Island cluster on 1 April 2026 and that the information will be updated in due course.) The figures by specialty and cluster are in the article on specialist outpatient waiting times.

A worked sum (example four): the same "one visit to a doctor", on each side's published price. Private: Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central, general practitioner consultation $550 (that page neither says whether medicine is included nor states an effective date). Public (eligible person): a family medicine clinic attendance $150, plus three drug items (each $5, each charged per 4 weeks), that is $150 plus $15, or $165. On the consultation alone: $550 divided by $150 is about 3.7.

⚠️ That ratio is only a comparison between two published prices, not a market average. And note the unit trap: the public $5 is "per drug item, per 4 weeks" and not "per attendance" — a few days' medicine and a full four weeks' count as the same unit; while if the private side uses a composite price including medicine, it is counted quite differently and the two drug figures cannot simply be subtracted.

⚠️ For someone whose condition is stable but who has been waiting a year for a specialist: your real choice is not "which is cheaper" but "keep waiting or pay to buy time"; the two sets of figures above are two faces of the same decision.

#What to do next: eight questions before seeing a private doctor

Each one corresponds to a cell on the fourteen schedules above that genuinely varies, and to the act of "requesting" that section 12.1 of the Code gives you — if you do not open your mouth, the provision does not engage.

#Frequently asked questions

Does the consultation fee include medicine?

Both practices exist and both are lawful. Note c of Appendix H of the Code expressly permits a doctor to display a "range of consultation fees" or a composite fee of "consultation and basic medicine for a certain number of days"; while hospital-level schedules are itemised — twelve of the licensed private hospitals' schedules state that the consultation fee excludes drugs, laboratory tests and procedures. The Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central and Hong Kong Baptist Hospital pages say nothing about it at all. So it has to be asked on the spot and cannot be assumed.

Is there a table comparing private consultation fees?

This article sets out the daytime consultation fees the fourteen private hospitals publish themselves, but that table is not a comparison — the fourteen documents' effective dates run from 15 November 2023 to 1 August 2026, two print none at all, their sessions and the doctors they apply to differ, and four of them state that the prices are for reference only with the actual charge decided by the attending doctor or the individual case. As at this article's information date, no current official or representative survey has been found publishing the distribution of private outpatient consultation fees; and the Government's written reply to the Legislative Council in 2019 states in terms that it will not regulate the price level or price structure of private healthcare.

Do nights and holidays cost more?

It depends on the institution, and some publish actual figures. The session charges above set out the published daytime and overnight prices, the largest published day-to-night gap being from $420 to $1,500 within one weekday at one hospital, on a section of a schedule whose stated update date is 15 November 2023. Others state that a surcharge is levied without giving the amount — St Teresa's Hospital's endoscopy centre, for instance. The rest have to be asked.

Is the consultation fee a hospital publishes what I will pay?

Not necessarily, and several hospitals say so themselves. First, the remarks on four schedules state that the prices are for reference only (Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road, St Teresa's Hospital) or that the total charge is subject to the attending doctor and depends on the patient's condition (Matilda International Hospital, Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road). Second, thirteen publish no visiting doctor's fee at all, publishing only their own half (Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road's facility fee of $500 per 30 minutes, for instance); St Paul's Hospital is the exception, publishing visiting doctors' "from" prices at centre level, while its specialist outpatient main table still tells you to ask the staff. Third, the Chinese and English of one schedule can say different things — the Chinese of Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road carries the words "for reference only" and the English does not, though both state that the total charge is subject to the attending doctor and therapist. Fourth, if you are admitted, room class changes the doctor's fee itself.

May a doctor decline to tell me the charge?

Sections 12.1 of the Code state alike in both languages that where a patient properly requests it and the doctor refuses or fails to make the charges known, that may be professional misconduct. Note that the provision is triggered by the patient's request; and on quoting in advance for substantial charges, section 12.2 is marked "strongly advised" in the English and 「應」 in the Chinese.

What does a public outpatient attendance cost now?

From 1 January 2026, for eligible persons, $250 per specialist clinic attendance and $20 per drug item (charged per 4 weeks); $150 per family medicine clinic attendance and $5 per drug item. The former distinction between $135 for a first specialist attendance and $80 for a follow-up has been merged into a single $250. The non-subsidised charges effective the same day (private-patient service in public hospitals) are $1,090–$2,580 for a first outpatient consultation and $950–$2,350 for a follow-up, excluding drugs.

#Notes: the official wording

Where a source publishes in English, the wording below is the source's own. Where a passage exists only in Chinese, the rendering is ours and is marked as such, with the original set out alongside so it can be checked.

[Note 1] Note 7 of the Health Bureau's Legislative Council Panel on Health Services paper CB(3)639/2025(03): "Issued on October 2012, the Director of Audit's Report No. 59 reviewed the issues of regulatory control of private hospitals … The report suggested that the Government should explore ways to enhance the transparency of fees levied by private hospitals … such as requiring private hospitals to ensure that every patient is informed, prior to or upon his admission to the hospital, of the estimated total fees which are likely to be incurred, and enacting laws on the transparency in medical fees."

[Note 2] The Government press release of 29 September 2016, cited here in its Chinese edition. The rendering is ours:

Under the pilot programme, all members of the Hong Kong Private Hospitals Association, that is the eleven private hospitals in Hong Kong at present, will implement the following three measures to enhance price transparency on a voluntary basis: introducing budget estimates for services…; publishing on hospital websites fee schedules for major charge items (such as operating theatre charges and the charges of common nursing procedures); and publishing on hospital websites statistics of actual billed charges for common surgeries and procedures (such as normal delivery and caesarean section). (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

在先導計劃下，香港私家醫院聯會所有會員，即現時香港十一間私家醫院，將以自願性質推行以下三項提高收費透明度的措施：＊　推出服務費用預算……＊　於醫院網站公布主要收費項目（如手術室費用和常見護理程序費用等）的收費表；以及＊　於醫院網站公布常見手術／程序（如自然分娩和剖腹分娩等）的實際賬單收費統計數據。

The same paper CB(3)639/2025(03) also states: "all 14 private hospitals now participate on a voluntary basis".

[Note 3] Appendix H of the Medical Council's Code of Professional Conduct: "Note: 'Yes' denotes permissible information and 'No' denotes impermissible information." "c Range of consultation fees, or composite fees including consultation and basic medicine for a certain number of days may be displayed."

[Note 4] St Teresa's Hospital, Common Chargeable Items. The first two remarks exist only in Chinese; the renderings are ours:

(1) The price list above sets out only the charges of common nursing procedure items, for reference. The fees above do not include the doctor's fee, drugs and related material costs. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

(1) 以上價目表僅列出的常用護理程序項目之收費，以供參考。以上費用並不包括醫生費、葯物及相關物料費。

(2) The price list above sets out only the basic charges of common items of the endoscopy centre, for reference. The fees above do not include the doctor's fee, monitored anaesthesia charges, pathology charges, drugs and material costs, additional instruments and equipment, or the performance of additional treatments or procedures (such as polypectomy). (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

(2) 以上價目表僅列出內視鏡檢查中心的常用項目之基本收費，以供參考。以上費用並不包括醫生費、監察麻醉費用、病理化驗費用、葯物及物料費用、額外儀器及設備、施行額外治療或程序(如切除瘜肉)。

And in the source's own English: "6. The above prices are exclusive of doctor's fee, which includes fees for operation, anaesthetic, doctor's visit, special consultation, etc."

[Note 5] The remarks to Matilda International Hospital's 24-hour Outpatient Care section: "Remarks: The above charges refer to consultation fees only and exclude fees for minor procedures, medication, laboratory services, etc. The total charge is subject to the attending doctor's discretion, and depends on the hour of services and patient's condition." "Hours and Charge Rate — Regular Hours: Mon - Sat 08:00-19:59, Normal Rate. Off Hours: Mon - Sat 20:00-07:59; Sundays & Public Holidays All day — Additional doctor's consultation fee"

[Note 6] The remarks to Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital's In-house Doctors Ward Round Fee schedule. Two of them exist only in Chinese; the renderings are ours:

These charges apply only where a diagnosis is made or a treatment plan drawn up at a first or extended consultation; in other cases the basic ward round fee is charged. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

有關收費只適用於因首次/延長時間診症而確診或制訂治理方案，其他情況則收取基本巡房費。

The charges above do not include drug costs. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

上述收費並不包括藥費。

And in the source's own English: "The above prices are for reference only. Actual charges will vary according to individual circumstances. Prices not indicated above will be provided upon request."

[Note 7] Matilda International Hospital's room rates page: "If patient requests transfer to an upgraded room within 48 hours after the procedure, charges - including room rates, ancillary fees and doctor fees - will be adjusted to the higher rate."

[Note 8] Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan's room rates page: "The following fees are not included in the room charge and vary according to room category: physician, operation, anaesthesia, operating room, nursing procedures, laboratory tests, diagnostic procedures, physical therapy, prescriptions, meals, medical supplies, use of equipment, accommodations for a guardian, and others."

[Note 9] Chapter 12 of the Medical Council's Code of Professional Conduct (revised October 2022), in the source's English:

12.1 Consultation fees should be made known to patients on request. In the course of investigation and treatment, all charges, to the doctors' best knowledge, should be made known to patients on request before the provision of services. A doctor who refuses or fails to make the charges known when properly requested may be guilty of professional misconduct.

12.4 A doctor should exhibit a notice in his clinic informing patients of their right to ask for quotation of the fees involved before receiving treatment.

The Chinese of the same two provisions:

12.1 醫生必須因應病人的要求向其透露診金的數目。在診斷和治療期間，醫生須根據他所知的資料，在提供服務前因應要求向病人透露一切可能所需的費用。醫生如果在病人提出合理要求時拒絕或未能向病人透露收費內容，可被視作專業上的失當行為。

12.4 醫生須在其醫務所展示告示，通知病人他們在接受治療前，享有查詢所涉及的收費價目的權利。

[Note 10] The same, section 12.3, whose Chinese sets out the three principles. The rendering is ours:

12.3 A doctor must not set an excessive price or collect an excessive fee. The Medical Council will apply the following principles in deciding whether a doctor's charge is excessive: (a) the difficulty, cost and special circumstances of the service concerned, and the time, skill and experience required; (b) the fee customarily charged in Hong Kong for similar services; and (c) the doctor's own experience and ability in providing the service concerned. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

12.3 醫生不得定價過高或收取過高酬勞。醫務委員會會採用下列原則，決定醫生的收費是否過高：(a) 有關服務的難度、成本和特殊情況，以及所需的時間、技巧和經驗；(b) 同類服務在香港一般收取的費用；以及 (c) 醫生本身在提供有關服務方面的經驗和能力。

[Note 11] The same, Appendix C: "A doctor may display a Service Information Notice bearing the fee schedules and the medical services provided by him at the exterior of his office. He must ensure that the displayed consultation fees truly reflect his normal charges. He must also ensure compliance with the provisions of section 5.2 of the Code governing 'Principles and rules of good communication…'"

[Note 12] The Dental Council of Hong Kong's Code of Professional Discipline for the Guidance of Dental Practitioners in Hong Kong, as reproduced at the fourth annex to Legislative Council paper CB(3)639/2025(03): "1.4.2 A notice must be exhibited in the waiting area of the clinic to inform patients of their right to ask before treatment for a quotation of the fees involved. 1.4.3 Consultation fees must be made known to patients on request. In the course of investigation and treatment, all charges to the dentist's best knowledge must be made known to patients on request before the provision of services."

[Note 13] Legislative Council written reply LCQ4, 8 May 2019: "as private medical service by its very nature is no different from other business transactions between consenting parties where prices are determined by market force, the Government will not regulate the price level or price structure of services provided by private healthcare facilities."

[Note 14] Note 5 of the Health Bureau's CB(3)639/2025(03): "At present, most medical practitioners in private practice provide primary healthcare services in Hong Kong, and the relevant reform is being spearheaded by the Primary Healthcare Commission … the measures addressing price transparency of private healthcare services will focus on the secondary and tertiary healthcare, mainly targeting private hospitals and specialist doctors."

[Note 15] The outpatient department remarks of St Teresa's Hospital's Common Chargeable Items: "The above table only shows the basic charges of Out Patient Department. All information should be used for reference only. The above fees do not include doctor's special examinations/ operations, medicines, materials and treatment fees." And Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital's 24-hour outpatient schedule: "The above prices are for reference only. Actual charges will vary according to individual circumstances. Prices not indicated above will be provided upon request."

[Note 16] The remarks to Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road's outpatient schedule. The English: "The above charges refer to consultation fees only and exclude fees for minor procedures, medication, laboratory services, etc. The total charge is subject to the attending doctor and therapist's discretion and depends on the patient's condition." The Chinese, in our rendering:

The consultation fees above are for reference only; the fees required depend on the patient's actual condition and on the individual doctor and therapist. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

上述診金僅供參考，所需費用須視乎病人實際情況及個別醫生和治療師而定。

[Note 17] Hong Kong Baptist Hospital's medical report fees page: "Note: Insurance claim form and medical report for patients under the care of our visiting doctors will not be handled. Please contact the attending doctors directly."

[Note 18] Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road, in Chinese. The rendering is ours:

From 1 October 2021, a consultation by a doctor not resident at this hospital (a special consultation) will carry a "facility fee" of HK$500 per 30 minutes; and where the consultation or treatment involves the assistance of special equipment, a further "facility fee – procedure" of HK$1,500. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

由2021年10月1日起，非本院駐診醫生之診症(特別診症)，將按每30分鐘收取「設施費」港幣$500；若診症或治療涉及特殊儀器輔助，則另加「設施費–程序」港幣$1,500。

[Note 19] The Health Bureau's CB(3)639/2025(03): "Save for those express provisions in the Ordinance, there is currently no robust mechanism under the existing codes of practice or the service deeds/land leases between the Government and private hospitals that may effectively regulate the price transparency of private healthcare services (particularly when involving visiting doctors who are not employed by private hospitals)."

[Note 20] Legislative Council Secretariat Research Office, ISE03/2026, 2 March 2026: "(a) Requiring private healthcare facilities (including private hospitals, day procedure centres and clinics) to make available price information through a fee schedule in specified format that clearly sets out all 'Basic Service Items' … The fee schedule should, as far as practicable, state fixed prices (e.g. HK$300 per outpatient consultation); otherwise, a price range should be provided;"

[Note 21] The Hospital Authority's annual charge cap page, in the source's English: "the Hospital Authority (HA) establishes a second safety net by introducing a HK$10,000 cap on an eligible patient's annual spending for specified public medical fees and charges without requiring financial assessment with effect from 1 January 2026." The Chinese of the same page, in our rendering:

With effect from 1 January 2026 the Hospital Authority establishes, besides the medical fee waiving mechanism, a second safety net setting an annual cap of ten thousand Hong Kong dollars on public healthcare service fees for eligible patients, requiring no financial assessment — the "Annual Charge Cap". (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

由2026年1月1日起，醫院管理局（醫管局）於醫療費用減免機制外，建立第二層安全網，為合資格病人設立無需經濟審查的每年一萬港元公營醫療服務費用上限–「全年收費上限」。

[Note 22] The same, the four eligibility items, in our rendering:

Must be an eligible person; the patient's cumulative "eligible medical fees and charges" paid within the year reach ten thousand Hong Kong dollars; there are no outstanding "eligible medical fees and charges" owed to the Hospital Authority at the time of application for the "Annual Charge Cap"; and the hospital services received by the patient must not have been determined by the Hospital Authority to be without clinical need. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

必須為符合資格人士*／病人於年度內累計繳付的「合資格醫療費用及收費」達到一萬港元／在申請「全年收費上限」時，在醫管局轄下無任何拖欠的「合資格醫療費用及收費」／病人接受之醫院服務不得被醫管局裁定為「無臨床需要」

The English of the same page adds: "Patients who met the eligibility criteria may submit their applications via HA Go or at any hospitals' shroff offices once their cumulative valid annual spending reached $10,000."

[Note 23] The same, in our renderings:

The annual application period opens on 1 January each year and closes on 31 March of the following year. Late applications will not be accepted, and eligible medical fees include only medical bills issued between 1 January and 31 December of each year and paid in full at the time of application. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

年度接受申請期由每年的1月1日開始，至次年的3月31日截止。遲交的申請將不獲接納，合資格醫療費用只包括在每年1月1日至12月31日所發出的醫療賬單，並在提交申請時已全數繳付。

A fresh application for the "Annual Charge Cap" is required for each year. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

每一個年度需要重新申請「全年收費上限」

Self-financed drugs and medical devices are excluded. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

自費藥物及醫療器械除外。

[Note 24] The same, in our renderings:

Patients must state at registration for medical services that the "Annual Charge Cap" has been approved, so as to ensure that they need not pay "eligible medical fees and charges". (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

病人在登記接受醫療服務時必須表明「全年收費上限」已獲批准，以確保他們無需支付「合資格醫療費用及收費」。

The assessment process normally takes 14 days. Where an assessment cannot be completed within that period, a progress notification will be issued to the patient or applicant. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

評估過程通常需要14天。無法在此期間內完成的評估會向病人/申請人發出進度通知。

Before the result of the application is announced, the applicant must still pay all Hospital Authority bills issued from the date of application. (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

申請結果公布前，申請人仍須繳付所有從申請日期起發出之醫管局帳單。

[Note 25] The Government press release of 31 October 2025, issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority: "Charges for Non-eligible Persons will be adjusted based on the 2023-24 service cost levels, while fees for non-subsidised services will be adjusted based on cost recovery principles, with reference to market rates." Note 6 to the Authority's non-subsidised charges schedule states that drugs and prostheses are charged separately at cost or purchased by the patient. The rendering of the charges line is ours:

Outpatient consultation charges, note 6 — first attendance: $1,090 to $2,580 per attendance; follow-up: $950 to $2,350 per attendance (our translation from the Chinese original)

Chinese original:

門診診治費用 註6 | 首次診治 : 每次診症1,090元 - 2,580元，覆診 : 每次診症950元 - 2,350元

#What this article does not state

• The market distribution of private outpatient consultation fees: no current official or representative survey has been found publishing one — not the Hong Kong Medical Association, not the Census and Statistics Department's Thematic Household Survey item on seeking medical consultation, and not the Health Bureau's statistics pages. The nearest thing is the Hong Kong Private Practice Survey carried out under the healthcare reform studies of the early 2000s — too distant to describe today's charges, and not cited here. The fourteen private hospitals' published consultation fees set out in the body are fourteen self-reported institutional documents, not a sample, not from one moment, and not comparable with one another; this article does not use them as a distribution or an average, and derives no "usual consultation fee" from them.
• Consultation fees at private clinics that are not hospitals: every first-hand schedule cited here belongs to a licensed private hospital or a clinic under one. No first-hand collective data on independent private clinics' consultation fees has been found, and this article states nothing about them.
• What the Census and Statistics Department's Thematic Household Survey actually measures: this article could not obtain the survey product itself and therefore states nothing about whether it carries a charge variable; the item above refers only to the absence of a relevant publication, not to the survey's contents.
• Medical report and certificate charges at clinic level: no first-hand published prices from any independent clinic have been found. At hospital level there is publication, but this article's earlier formulation of "nine, two, eleven in all" was wrong in two ways — a miscount, and material missed — so it is now set out item by item and no total is given. The scope that can be checked: of the fourteen, less Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central (a clinic, not a hospital — see above), thirteen remain, not the eleven originally stated. (Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas) was originally listed as "the official site could not be reached during either of this article's two checks, status unknown, could not be verified"; on rechecking, its "Medical Records Department — schedule of document charges" PDF returned HTTP 200 with identical content on both 1 August 2026 and 7 August 2026, so that hospital's website was not unreachable and this article corrects the record — see the next paragraph.) Confirmed to publish some kind of medical report or certificate price: Evangel Hospital, medical report "from $1,000"; St Paul's Hospital, "Medical Report Note / Attending Physician Statement" at "$1,000 or above (each in house doctor)"; Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, outpatient $500–$1,000 per report per doctor and specialist outpatient $1,000–$2,000; St Teresa's Hospital, medical report $250 per copy plus the doctor's charge (not counted in the original tally, its schedule already being cited elsewhere in this article); CUHK Medical Centre, medical report, attending doctor's certificate or medical questionnaire (in-house doctors or other healthcare professionals of that hospital only), administration fee $200 with the charge to be agreed and a minimum of $720 (likewise not counted originally); and Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas), whose "Medical Records Department — schedule of document charges" states 「醫生報告及文件處理費 Medical Report and Medical Report Processing Fee」 as (the doctor's price) plus $300 (originally listed in error as unverifiable, corrected on rechecking — see above). Together with the group originally described but not named individually — six hospitals publishing only a hospital administration fee (between $200 and $350), with the doctor's half stated on each schedule in its own words as set by the doctor or "to be confirmed by doctor" — that makes twelve publishing some kind of price (six named plus six unnamed, 6+6=12; that figure is not an "at least" but the direct sum of what is known — whether some thirteenth also publishes a price that this article has not found is why it is counted as "at least"). Confirmed to publish no fixed price however hard one looks: Canossa Hospital (the medical report charges link points to an application form, and the form states that charges follow "the hospital's latest price list", which is not published); Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road (the medical records department page carries only a heading and an enquiry telephone number, with no schedule); Matilda International Hospital (the schedule prints only "By quotation", with no minimum and no range — originally miscounted as "has a price" among the nine, when in substance it belongs with the two above); and Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan (the medical documents pages print only "Subject to doctor's confirmation", in the same class as the three above, and were not counted at all originally) — at least four publishing no fixed price. Adding those two groups (twelve plus four, sixteen) already exceeds the thirteen in scope, which shows that this article has not itself verified, one by one, which six the "six unnamed" are, nor whether they overlap with the four that publish no fixed price; and overlap cannot be assumed. This article therefore no longer gives a total of "how many publish a price and how many do not", and sets out only the individual positions that have been verified; if you want a particular hospital's medical report charges, go back to that hospital's first-hand link in the table above, or ask its fees page.
• Charges for referral letters: of the fourteen licensed private hospitals' published schedules, not one carries a price for a referral letter. The nearest published items are certificates (Evangel Hospital, from $350), "Letter of Certificate" (Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, $380) and attendance records.
• Visiting doctors' consultation fees: thirteen of the fourteen publish no such item; what hospitals publish is their own in-house doctors' fees, and, at some hospitals, the facility fee charged for a visiting doctor's consultation. St Paul's Hospital is the only exception, publishing visiting doctors' open-ended "from" prices at centre level (see the section on visiting doctors' fees above), and the individual figures are not repeated here.
• The size of night and holiday surcharges: five hospitals publish a rate or an amount. Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital adds 20% for procedures outside normal consultation hours at its 24-hour outpatient clinic; Union Hospital adds 100% for inpatient physiotherapy outside office hours and on Sundays and public holidays; Matilda International Hospital charges its operating theatre at 1.5 times the normal hourly rate under a number 8 signal or above and in extreme conditions, and prices booked surgical packages outside office hours at 1.5 times likewise; St Paul's Hospital charges a $1,000 doctor's fee for an urgent specialist consultation by an off-duty in-house doctor; and Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road prices ophthalmology at $2,100, with the 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. session at $2,300. The one still without an amount is St Teresa's Hospital's endoscopy centre, whose schedule notes only that surcharges will be levied for emergency and out-of-hours service.
• Direct settlement arrangements with insurers: no first-hand source explaining how private clinics or hospitals handle direct settlement has been found, and this article states nothing about it. (Charges for completing insurance claim forms are published by several, and are not listed here hospital by hospital.)
• The rationale for linking private hospital room class to the doctor's fee: the practice has first-hand documents (see the body), but not one of the fourteen publishes a reason for that linkage, and this article does not speculate on its behalf.
• Which is more common, a composite price including medicine or itemised charging: both forms have first-hand support, but no source has been found measuring how common either is, or measuring how practice differs between clinics, and this article makes no statement of proportion or prevalence.
• Consumer survey percentages: the Consumer Council's press release carries a number of consumer survey percentages, but it does not state the sample size or the survey date, and this article does not cite those percentages; it cites only statements whose scope the release states for itself (the 15 of 20 sampled day procedure centres with no online fee schedule, for instance).
• The text of sections 61 to 63 of the Private Healthcare Facilities Ordinance (Cap. 633): every description of them here is taken from the Government's and the Legislative Council's accounts of the provisions, and not from the provisions themselves.
• Comparisons between individual doctors, clinics or hospitals: this article makes no comparison and passes no judgement on whether any institution's or any doctor's charges are more reasonable, cheaper or better. The published prices are set out only to show how far from comparable the published material is.

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Status of the material: official charges, the professional code and providers' self-reported prices, with every figure attributed to its source and that document's own date next to it. This is health and charging information, not medical advice; the actual charge is whatever the clinic or hospital you attend quotes you.

#Sources

• Chapter 12, "Fees", of the Medical Council's Code of Professional Conduct (12.1–12.4 in both languages, the difference in force, and the Chinese version's statement that the English governs), Appendix C on the Service Information Notice, and item 15 of Appendix H, "Range of fees", marked "No" in all three media columns together with its note c (permitting a range of consultation fees or a composite price of consultation plus basic medicine), the version revised in October 2022: English https://www.mchk.org.hk/english/code/files/Code_of_Professional_Conduct_(English_Version)_(Revised_in_October_2022).pdf, Chinese https://www.mchk.org.hk/tc_chi/code/files/Code_of_Professional_Conduct_(Chinese_Version)_2022.pdf (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• The comparison text of sections 1.4.2–1.4.3 of the Dental Council of Hong Kong's Code of Professional Discipline for the Guidance of Dental Practitioners in Hong Kong, at the fourth annex to Legislative Council Panel on Health Services paper CB(3)639/2025(03): https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr2025/english/panels/hs/papers/hs20250509cb3-639-3-e.pdf (paper discussed 9 May 2025, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• The Health Bureau's Enhancing Price Transparency of Private Healthcare Services, Legislative Council Panel on Health Services paper CB(3)639/2025(03) (note 7 on the origin in the Audit Commission's Report No. 59 of 2012; note 5 on the transparency measures targeting mainly private hospitals and specialist doctors; all fourteen private hospitals now participating voluntarily; the absence of any mechanism effectively regulating price transparency, particularly where visiting doctors not employed by hospitals are involved): the same link; Chinese version https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr2025/chinese/panels/hs/papers/hs20250509cb3-639-3-c.pdf (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Government press release, "Government launches pilot programme on enhancing price transparency of private hospitals" (the three voluntary measures and the eleven private hospitals), 29 September 2016: Chinese https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201609/29/P2016092900793.htm, English https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201609/29/P2016092900791.htm (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Legislative Council written reply LCQ4, "Prices for private healthcare services" (the Government not regulating the price level or price structure of private healthcare), 8 May 2019: https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201905/08/P2019050800331.htm (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Legislative Council Secretariat Research Office, Research Brief ISE03/2026, "Enhancing private healthcare price transparency" (the proposed statutory fee schedule applying to clinics, in a specified format stating fixed prices or a price range; the subsidiary legislation expected in 2026 and not yet made), 2 March 2026: English https://www.legco.gov.hk/research-publications/english/essentials-2026ise03-enhancing-private-healthcare-price-transparency.htm, Chinese https://www.legco.gov.hk/research-publications/chinese/essentials-2026ise03-enhancing-private-healthcare-price-transparency.htm (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Office for Regulation of Private Healthcare Facilities, background to the Private Healthcare Facilities Ordinance (passed 15 November 2018; hospital licensing commenced 1 January 2021; clinic licence applications accepted from 13 October 2025): https://www.orphf.gov.hk/tc/regulatory_regime/new_licensing_scheme (the page states "Review date: 23 May 2025", retrieved 1 August 2026)
• The Department of Health's public enquiry platform for the Pilot Programme on Enhancing Price Transparency of Private Hospitals, list of hospitals (the names and order of the fourteen participating hospitals): https://apps.orphf.gov.hk/Public/Info/Hospitals.aspx (the page states no revision date, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Consumer Council press release, "Confidence and Value: Enhancing Price Transparency in Healthcare" (the transparency provisions not yet commenced; the 50th percentile for inpatient haemorrhoidectomy of $33,881–$85,387 and the 152.0% difference, with the same paragraph's qualification that charges may differ because of the patient's condition, service quality and the choice of doctor, facility or treatment method; doctor and hospital fees adjusted by ward class with an unclear rationale; 15 of 20 sampled day procedure centres with no online fee schedule; day procedure centres not required to publish past charge statistics), 6 March 2025: https://www.consumer.org.hk/tc/press-release/p-private-healthcare-services-study-report (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Canossa Hospital outpatient and specialist charges (general practice $388/$500/$800 by session; specialist consultation $1,200–$2,000 plus a facility fee of $200/$330/$400; the statement that the doctor's consultation fee and the specific charges depend on the specialty and the individual case; medical report charges not published): https://www.canossahospital.org.hk/en/service/24_hours_out_patient_services/fees_and_charges, Chinese https://www.canossahospital.org.hk/tc/service/24_hours_out_patient_services/fees_and_charges (the page states service fees effective 1 April 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• CUHK Medical Centre specialist outpatient and emergency medicine centre charges (specialist fees published in two columns, "specialist" and "professorial grade", genetics and genomics (paediatrics) $3,000–$5,000; emergency medicine centre $400/$600/$800; consultation fees excluding minor surgery, drugs and laboratory charges): specialist outpatient PDF https://www.cuhkmc.hk/f/page/1027/27203/Website%20Poster%20-%20SOP%20(01082026%20clean%20version)%20v.2.pdf (the document states effective 1 August 2026), emergency medicine centre PDF https://www.cuhkmc.hk/f/page/1021/25636/Website%20poster%20-%20EMC%20(17072026%20PDF%20clean%20version).pdf (footer prints "17.07.2026 version"; remark 6 states "Prices will be effective on 1 February 2026"; the overnight band 10:00 p.m. – 7:59 a.m. is $800), page https://www.cuhkmc.hk/fees-and-charges/clinical-service-fee (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Evangel Hospital outpatient and document charges (general practice $285/$395, at nine-tenths of the price for those aged 65 or above; medical report from $1,000 per copy; certificate from $350 per copy): https://www.evangel.org.hk/en/charges/price_list/ (the outpatient table states Effective Date: 2025.01.02), medical report PDF https://www.evangel.org.hk/images/charges/list_medicalreport.pdf (states effective 2/1/2026) (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Gleneagles Medical Clinic Central "Fees & Charges" (general practitioner consultation $550; first attendance and follow-up charges for nine specialties; cervical cytology $430 printed as "Special price"; influenza vaccination $450 printed with "*while stocks last"; the paediatrics specialist fee printed with "the fee is subject to the selected doctor"; the page saying nothing about whether medicine is included): https://gleneagles.hk/clinic/gleneagles-medical-clinic/fees-charges (the page states no effective or revision date, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• HKSH Eastern Medical Centre, Family Medicine and Primary Care Centre consultation fee $400 — this schedule too exists only as an image, with no machine-readable text version, and the figure here was read directly off the image: https://www.hksh-emc.com/en/fees-and-charges/family-medicine-and-primary-care-centre.php (the schedule states effective 1 August 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road outpatient schedule (general practice $450/$550; first attendance and follow-up charges by specialty; ophthalmology $2,100 and $2,300 for the 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. session; facility fee for special consultations by non-resident doctors of $500 per 30 minutes and facility fee – procedure $1,500; the difference between the Chinese and English remarks): Chinese https://www.hkah.org.hk/tc/fees-and-charges/out-patient-consultation-fee/out-patient-consultation-fee-2, English https://www.hkah.org.hk/en/fees-and-charges/out-patient-consultation-fee/out-patient-consultation-fee-2 (the schedule states effective 7/7/2026); medical records department page (no schedule) https://www.hkah.org.hk/en/fees-and-charges/ancillary-services-fees/medical-records-department (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Tsuen Wan outpatient schedule (general outpatient $270; emergency centre $480/$800/$950; specialist consultation fees, orthopaedics $500–800; 「以上費用不包括醫生治療費、藥費、物料、化驗等費用。」): PDF https://www.twah.org.hk/storage/media/Fee%20Schedule/4%20OPD_2026_updated%20on%2014%20Aug%202026.pdf (the document states effective 1/8/2026; on re-download on 29 August 2026 the file embedded on that page had changed from the "updated on 20 July 2026" version to the "updated on 14 Aug 2026" version, both stating the same effective date of 1/8/2026, and the $270 and the emergency centre’s $480/$800/$950 cited here were re-checked cell by cell against the new version and are unchanged); ward charges page (the list of charges that "vary according to room category", the first item being the physician) https://www.twah.org.hk/en/fees-and-charges/charges-for-in-patient-services/charges-on-ward-accommodation-2 (the page states no effective date); medical documents charges PDF https://www.twah.org.hk/storage/media/Fee%20Schedule/Copy%20of%206%20Medical%20Record_April%202025.pdf (states effective 1 March 2025) (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hong Kong Baptist Hospital 24-hour outpatient and specialist outpatient charges ($400/$600/$900; specialist $700–$1,800; medical report administration fee $250; "Letter of Certificate" $380; insurance forms and medical reports for visiting doctors' patients not handled): 24-hour outpatient PDF https://www.hkbh.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/price-list-website-version-2026-07-01-001-opc.pdf, specialist outpatient PDF https://www.hkbh.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/price-list-website-version-2026-07-01-002-specialist-clinic.pdf (both stating updated 01/07/2026), medical report charges page https://www.hkbh.org.hk/fees-charges/medical-report-other-administration-fees/?lang=en (states Last updated: 1 Jul 2026) (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, In-house Doctors Ward Round Fee (general ward ceiling $2,000 a day, semi-private single room $3,000, private room $6,000, ICU $4,000/$8,000; the remark 「有關收費只適用於因首次/延長時間診症而確診或制訂治理方案」 and, in the same passage, "The above prices are for reference only. Actual charges will vary according to individual circumstances." and 「上述收費並不包括藥費。」 — this schedule exists only as a JPEG image with no machine-readable text version, and all the Chinese quoted in this entry was read directly off the image): page https://www.hksh-hospital.com/en/fees-and-charges/ward-round-fee, schedule image http://www.hksh.com/global/pricelist/zh-hant/In-house%20Doctors%20Ward%20Round%20Fee;%20Page1;%20L-HV.jpg (the schedule states effective 1 August 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital 24-hour outpatient charges (Happy Valley $400/$600/$800; procedures outside normal consultation hours surcharged 20%; 「上述收費並不包括藥費」; the remark "The above prices are for reference only. Actual charges will vary according to individual circumstances.") and medical report charges (outpatient $500–$1,000 per report per doctor, specialist outpatient $1,000–$2,000, administration fee $220; no charge for insurance claim forms) — both schedules exist only as images with no machine-readable text version, and the figures here were read directly off them: pages https://www.hksh-hospital.com/en/fees-and-charges/price-list/24-hour-outpatient-clinic and https://www.hksh-hospital.com/en/fees-and-charges/administrative-charges (the schedules state effective 1 August 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital room categories and rates schedule (the Chinese version closing with 「如中、英文版本之間有任何歧義，概以英文版本為準。」, which the English of the same schedule does not carry): page https://www.hksh-hospital.com/en/fees-and-charges/accommodation-charges, Chinese schedule image http://www.hksh.com/global/pricelist/zh-hant/Room%20Categories%20and%20Rates;%20Page1;%20L-HV.jpg, English http://www.hksh.com/global/pricelist/en/Room%20Categories%20and%20Rates;%20Page1;%20L-HV.jpg (both stating effective 1 August 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Matilda International Hospital "Hospital Fees" page (general practice $590/$800/$900/$1,000; specialists $2,500–$3,000; the outpatient procedures "Hospital Fee" and "Doctor Fee" columns, suturing $1,200/$4,500; that section's remark "The total charge is subject to the attending doctor's discretion, and depends on the hour of services and patient's condition." and the off-hours "Additional doctor's consultation fee"; the room rates page's statement that on an upgrade the doctor's fee is recalculated at the higher class; medical report By quotation): English https://www.matilda.org/en/fees-and-packages/hospital-fees, Chinese https://www.matilda.org/zh-hk/fees-and-packages/hospital-fees (each section stating effective 2026年2月1日 / 1 Feb 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas) outpatient services schedule (general practice $280/$390, $20 less for those over 65; specialist consultation fees; unscheduled session $300 with the doctor's fee separate; 「診症費不包括藥物、注射、換症、化驗、X光、小手術及其他施行程序，文件填寫及打印費用等」): PDF https://www.pbh.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/002_%E9%96%80%E8%A8%BA%E6%9C%8D%E5%8B%99%E6%94%B6%E8%B2%BB%E8%A1%A8-V4-2025.pdf (states Effective date 1/1/2025), charges index https://www.pbh.hk/service-fee-adjustment/; document charges PDF https://www.pbh.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/%E5%90%84%E9%A0%85%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E6%94%B6%E8%B2%BB%E8%A1%A8%E7%94%9F%E6%95%88%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%9F-1-Sep-2024.pdf (states effective 1 September 2024) (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• St Paul's Hospital 24-hour outpatient and specialist outpatient charges (the in-house doctors' tables on the general and specialist versions carrying the same four figures $280/$430/$350/$470; centre-level in-house doctors $680, visiting doctors from $680 to from $1,000; $1,000 doctor's fee for an urgent specialist consultation by an off-duty in-house doctor; 「如欲查詢有關客席專科醫生時間及收費，煩請與本中心職員聯絡。」; medical report $1,000 or above, attendance record $420): Chinese https://www.stpaul.org.hk/tc/charges/detail/24-hour-outpatient-department-general, https://www.stpaul.org.hk/tc/charges/detail/specialist-outpatient-department; English https://www.stpaul.org.hk/en/charges/detail/24-hour-outpatient-department-general, https://www.stpaul.org.hk/en/charges/detail/specialist-outpatient-department, https://www.stpaul.org.hk/en/charges/detail/medical-report-and-other-patients-information (none of these pages states an effective date, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• St Teresa's Hospital Common Chargeable Items (the four outpatient department doctor's consultation fees by session and day, in-house doctors only; the outpatient department remark "All information should be used for reference only." and the exclusion of drugs and materials; outpatient endoscopy charges and their six exclusions, with the remark 「(3) 實際收費需按照個案之複雜程度而定。」 and "(1) Surcharges will be levied for emergency services or services are required outside office hours."; nursing procedure charges; the endoscopy centre's out-of-hours surcharge stated but not quantified): https://www.sth.org.hk/download/FeeSchedule.pdf (the schedule states updated 1 July 2026, retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Union Hospital Fees and Charges by all Room Class PDF (emergency medicine centre consultation fees by session $420–$1,500 and a separate set for those over 60; specialist registration fee $310 plus consultation from $800; inpatient physiotherapy surcharged 100% outside office hours; medical report priced by the doctor plus an administration fee of $270; each section stating its own Latest Update date, section (4) being 15/11/2023): English https://www.union.org/appassets/For-Health-Professionals/Budget-Documents/PriceTransparancy_EN_Version_6.8.pdf, Chinese https://www.union.org/appassets/For-Health-Professionals/Budget-Documents/PriceTransparancy_CN_Version_6.8.pdf (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hospital Authority fees and charges (the outpatient, drug, injection and dressing, pathology and radiology charges for eligible persons effective 1 January 2026; the non-subsidised outpatient consultation charges of 1,090–2,580 and 950–2,350 and the exclusions at note 6): https://www.ha.org.hk/visitor/ha_view_content.asp?Content_ID=10045&Lang=CHIB5&Dimension=100&Ver=HTML (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Government press release, "HA announces application arrangements under enhanced medical fee waiving mechanism" (non-subsidised charges set on cost recovery principles with reference to market rates), 31 October 2025: https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202510/31/P2025103100494.htm (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hospital Authority "Annual Charge Cap" (the ten-thousand-dollar cap, no financial assessment, the four eligibility items verbatim, the sentence on applying via HA Go or a hospital shroff office verbatim, the passage on the application period closing on 31 March of the following year with late applications not accepted verbatim, the sentence requiring a fresh application each year verbatim, and the sentence excluding self-financed drugs and medical devices verbatim): Chinese https://www.ha.org.hk/visitor/ha_view_content.asp?Content_ID=281820&Lang=CHIB5&Dimension=100&Ver=HTML, English https://www.ha.org.hk/visitor/ha_view_content.asp?Content_ID=281820&Lang=ENG&Dimension=100&Ver=HTML (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Government press release, "Hospital Authority implements fees and charges reform rationalising healthcare services and enhancing patient protection", annex (specialist outpatient before the reform, first attendance $135 and follow-up $80; merged into a single $250 after), 25 March 2025: https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202503/25/P2025032500462.htm; the Hospital Authority's Chinese text https://www.ha.org.hk/haho/ho/pad/279238_TC.pdf (retrieved 1 August 2026)
• Hospital Authority, Waiting Time for Stable New Case Booking at Specialist Out-patient Clinics (statistical period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026; the median targets for urgent and semi-urgent new cases; the stable new case medians for medicine by cluster; the notes on the former cluster boundaries and on the merger of Hong Kong East and Hong Kong West on 1 April 2026): https://www.ha.org.hk/haho/ho/sopc/dw_wait_ls.pdf (retrieved 1 August 2026)