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Consultants' fees explained

We’re committed to giving our customers access to high quality, affordable healthcare. They pay for doctors’ fees through their premiums and we work hard to make sure they pay a fair price. It’s also important that the fees we pay consultants appropriately to reflect procedure complexity, consultants’ skills and expertise and the costs incurred in running a private practice.


Here you’ll find out:

  • What you can charge for
  • How we set and agree our fees
  • How we review procedures

What can consultants charge for

All our recognised consultants can charge for consultations and procedures for our customers as long as they’re published in our Schedule of Procedures, within the consultant’s respective specialty and covered by the customer’s policy or scheme.

Our policies and schemes cover the cost of medically necessary, planned private consultations, tests and treatment for acute conditions at Bupa recognised hospitals and clinics.

To be covered, treatments (together with the products and equipment used as part of the treatment) need to be:

  • consistent with generally accepted standards of medical practice and representative of best practices in the medical profession in the UK
  • clinically appropriate in terms of type, frequency, extent, duration and the facility or location where the services are provided
  • demonstrated through scientific evidence to be effective in improving health outcomes
  • not provided or used primarily for the expediency of the patient or their consultant or other healthcare professional

How we set and agree fees

How we review procedures

How to get in touch

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