"The [Competition Commission (CC)] provisionally found that there are anti-competitive features in the supply or acquisition of these services, mainly due to the market structure, certain incentive schemes used by private hospitals and information asymmetries. The CC found that these features ... were estimated to cost patients between 173 million GBP and 193 million GBP per year between 2009 and 2011, which is equivalent to approximately 10 to 11 per cent of the revenues of the three leading private hospital operators in the United Kingdom. In view of this finding, the CC proposed the imposition of a variety of structural and behavioural remedies."

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