Out Sourcing of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery: Cost Considerations

165 surgeries for head and neck cancer have been performed by a team of the Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology IIHNO in 1 year. Integration of private players was necessitated because of need to share available facilities without losing objective of reducing the cost. These surgeries were performed at a private hospital using their resources for the operation theatre and post-operative intensive care services, since the IIHNO does not as yet have an operation theatre facility. The pre-op facilities and post-operative care was done at IIHNO a charitable cancer center under the Indore Cancer Foundation a public charitable trust. Cost analysis of these procedures has been done and the system of integration of the two have been analysed.