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 Max Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi | |
| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Healthcare |
| Founded | 2001; 24 years ago (2001) |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
Area served | India |
Key people | Abhay Soi (Chairman & MD)[1] |
| Revenue |  ₹9,065 crore (US$1.1 billion) (2025) |
| ₹2,319 crore (US$270 million) (2025) | |
| ₹1,336 crore (US$160 million) (2025) | |
Number of employees | 15,000 (2023)[2] |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references Financials as of 31 March 2025[update].[3] | |
Max Healthcare Institute Limited is an Indianfor-profitprivatehospital chain headquartered inDelhi.[4][5] As of June 2025, Max Healthcare operates 22 hospitals, with a total of over 5,000 beds, primarily inNorth India.[6][7]
Max Healthcare also operates the Max Labpathology and Max@Homehome medical services divisions.[8]
Max Healthcare opened its first medical center inSouth Delhi's Panchsheel Park in 2000. The company opened two other secondary care centers inPitampura inNorth West Delhi andNoida in 2002.[9] In 2004, the company commissioned the East Block of itsflagship tertiary care hospital called Max Hospital,Saket in South Delhi.
In 2007, Max Healthcare ventured intoGurgaon with a secondary care hospital.[10]
In 2011, Max Healthcare entered into apublic–private partnership (PPP) agreement with theGovernment of Punjab to set up two hospitals inMohali andBathinda. In the same year, Max Healthcare commissioned its tertiary care hospital inShalimar Bagh, North West Delhi.[11]
In 2012,Life Healthcare Group acquired a 26% stake in Max Healthcare for₹516 crore (US$96.56 million). In 2014, Life Healthcare invested another₹766 crore (US$125.51 million) to increase its stake to 46.41% and to become an equal joint venture partner withMax India.[12]
In 2015, Max Healthcare acquired the Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital in Vaishali,Ghaziabad,[13] and the Saket City Hospital in Saket. These hospitals were subsequently renamed as Max Hospital Vaishali, and Max Smart Hospital, Saket.[14][15] A standalone oncology center called Max Cancer Centre was commissioned inLajpat Nagar, South Delhi, in 2016.[16]
In 2018, Life Healthcare announced that it would sell its entire 49.7% stake in Max Healthcare and exit its joint venture with Max India.[17] In 2019, Radiant Lifecare acquired 49.7% stake in Max Health Institute Limited for₹2,136 crore (US$303.32 million)[18][19] and Abhay Soi was made chairman.[20] In 2020, Max Healthcare merged with Radiant Lifecare, which operated BLK Hospital inCentral Delhi and theNanavati Hospital in Mumbai, to become the second-largest healthcare company in India by revenue.[21][1]
The company listed on thestock exchanges in August 2020.[22][23] Between 2021 and 2022, co-promoterKKR & Co. Inc. sold its entire stake in Max Healthcare. As a result, Abhay Soi became the sole promoter of the company with over 23% stake.[24][25]
In 2021, the company obtained the rights to aid the development of a 500-bed hospital in Saket, South Delhi.[26] It secured two land parcels in Gurgaon for two hospitals.[27] The company also executed an O&M agreement to manage the 300-bed Muthoot Hospital inDwarka, Delhi.[28] In 2022, it acquired a controlling stake in Eqova Healthcare, which had the rights to provide medical services to an upcoming hospital inPatparganj, East Delhi.[29]
In December 2023, Max Healthcare acquiredSahara Hospital inLucknow for₹940 crore (US$110 million).[30] In February 2024, it acquired Alexis Multi-Specialty Hospital inNagpur for₹412 crore (US$49 million).[31]
In September 2024, Max Healthcare acquired a 64% stake in Jaypee Healthcare at an enterprise value of₹1,660 crore (US$200 million), gaining control of three hospitals inNoida,Bulandshahr andAnupshahr.[32] In 2025, Max Healthcare sold the hospitals in Anupshahr and Bulandshahr for₹40 crore (US$4.7 million) as it announced that it would focus on super-specialty hospitals in larger cities.[6]
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Max Institute of Medical Excellence (MIME) has held various training programs across multiple disciplines.[33][34] Courses offered include a full-time postgraduate Internal Medicine Training (IMT) program in association with the Joint Royal College of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB), UK.[35] The institute offers a program affiliated with the Lincoln American University, Guyana to train MBBS students. The clinical rotation of 88 weeks is divided amongsurgery,obstetrics andgynecology,pediatrics, andfamily medicine, and various electives likegastroenterology,urology,nephrology,psychiatry,dermatology,orthopedics,rheumatology,neurology andneurosurgery,cardiology, andcardio-thoracic surgery, etc.[36]
In September 2013, a patient who had received apacemaker implantation at Max Super Speciality Hospital,Mohali, died after the doctor allegedly implanted a "wrong and cheap pacemaker". In 2014, theChief Judicial Magistrate Court (CJM) of Mohali summoned the hospital's CEO and doctor to stand trial against charges of medical negligence, conspiracy and cheating.[38] In 2017, theState Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ordered the hospital to pay a compensation of₹32.94 lakh (US$50,582.3) to the wife of the deceased patient.[39] The CJM's summoning order was upheld by thePunjab and Haryana High Court in 2024.[40]
In 2015, theCompetition Commission of India (CCI) ordered a probe into Max Super Speciality Hospital,Patparganj, which was allegedly selling disposable syringes to patients at inflated prices. In 2017, the CCI investigation concluded that the hospital was making 275% to 525% profits by forcing patients to buy the products atmaximum retail price from its own pharmacy in "a clear instance of abuse of the dominant position". It noted thatovercharging was prevalent across all 14 hospitals of Max Group.[41]
In 2016, theGovernment of Delhi ordered five hospitals in the city, including Max Super Speciality Hospital,Saket, to pay a total fine of₹600 crore (US$89.29 million) for denying free-of-cost treatment to the poor. The government stated that the five hospitals were granted land at concessional rates on the condition that they provide free medical treatment to poor people totalling to 10% of all in-patients and 25% of all outpatients, but they had failed to comply with the condition.[42][43]
In December 2017, theGovernment of Delhi suspended the license of Max Super Speciality Hospital,Shalimar Bagh, which had wrongly declared apreterm baby dead that was later found to be alive. Delhi Health MinisterSatyendar Jain labelled the hospital as a "habitual offender" and said that three notices had been served to the hospital earlier over medical lapses.[44][45] The hospital resumed operations later that month after the license suspension was stayed.[46]
During theoutbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Patparganj, received criticism for its high treatment costs. The hospital issued a statement that charges of over₹1 lakh (US$1,349.53) per day was applicable only for "very critical COVID-19 patients".[47][48]
