The Mexican health sector is predominantly public, but the private sector has steadily increased its share. In the last decade, there has been an increasing interest in the private sector, with the exponential growth of private health groups such as Grupo Ángeles, Médica Sur, Hospitales ABC and StarMedica. The predominance of these private groups haspushed smaller private health institutions to cooperate and join efforts in order to increase their leverage when negotiating the acquisition of medical devices with distributors and manufacturers and to attract new patients while under the shadow of those giant private groups. A good example of these cooperative relationships can be seen in the Consorcio Mexicano de Hospitales, the most important private network of hospitals, with 27 associates throughout the country, and initiator of a plan that has proven its worthiness by improving the quality of its associates’ services and their negotiating strength with providers and insurance companies.

The future perspectives on the evolution of Mexican medical systems look bright. Though the private sector had a hard time in 2009 and 2010 due to the international economic crisis that impacted the country, it has greatly recovered and is expected to grow steadily in the coming years.