Channel hospitals, also known as the opposite of direct hospitals, refer to plastic surgery institutions that patients go to through recommendations from intermediaries. This phenomenon mainly exists within the plastic surgery industry and is used to distinguish the nature of hospitals. In short, customers are introduced through an intermediary and pay at least twice as much as direct hospital fees, and part of this fee will be returned to the intermediary in the form of high rebates. The experience of going to channel hospitals is often poor, resulting in not only heavy financial losses, but also problems with guaranteeing results. In fact, most so-called channel hospitals are small outpatient clinics or clinics rather than formal professional plastic surgery hospitals.

The formation of channel plastic surgery hospitals is an anomaly in the development of the industry, with obvious characteristics: first, the price is high, 2-5 times that of direct hospitals, or even higher; second, intermediaries gain from it The commission usually exceeds 50%; in addition, more than 95% of channel hospitals are small-scale clinics, and formal plastic surgery hospitals rarely participate; the doctor team is mainly ordinary doctors, and is driven by profits and has high liquidity; finally, when a medical accident occurs Or when they are dissatisfied with the results of plastic surgery, consumers often face difficulties in safeguarding their rights and interests.

In general, the existence of channel hospitals reveals some problems in the plastic surgery industry. Consumers should be extremely cautious when choosing to ensure that their own rights and interests are not harmed.