Product Code: SR112025A5135
The global healthcare BPO market size reached USD 32.6 Billion in 2024. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach USD 60.5 Billion by 2033, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 7.12% during 2025-2033. The growing need to reduce workload and operational costs, rising prevalence of various chronic diseases, and increasing adoption to generate more profit margins among healthcare facilities represent some of the key factors driving the market growth.
Rising Focus on Enhanced Patient Safety and Health Propelling Market Growth
The increasing focus on enhancing patient safety and health represents one of the key factors contributing to the growth of the market. It is essential for a healthcare facility to treat patients with high care and offer the best treatment options. Healthcare BPOs assist in managing non-core activities in an organization which reduces the workload of staff members and care providers to help them become more focused on patient health. In addition to this, the growing employment of healthcare BPOs due to the increasing demand for maintaining crucial patient records for better decision-making are offering a favorable market outlook. Besides this, there is a rise in the adoption of improved patient safety solutions among patients suffering from various acute and chronic diseases across the globe.
What is Healthcare BPO?
Healthcare business process outsourcing (BPO) comprises hiring an external contractor to handle the non-clinical activities of a healthcare organization. It comprises several activities, such as coding, billing services, tests and lab reports, data entry, claims processing, employee training, finance and accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), human resource management (HRM), patient insurance details, and transcription. It provides convenient services, enhances data security, data storage and recovery, and improves workflow management. It benefits in generating more profit in a business by increasing the productivity of staff members. It assists organizations in focusing on their core business activities and treating patients more efficiently rather than wasting time on non-core activities. Besides this, it aids in improving patient experience and providing access to healthcare specialists at a lower cost. As it reduces the burden of back-office tasks for providers and onsite support staff, the demand for healthcare BPO is rising across the globe.
Healthcare BPO Market Trends:
At present, the rising adoption of healthcare BPOs due to the increasing prevalence of various chronic diseases, such as cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders, among the masses around the world represents one of the key factors supporting the growth of the market. Besides this, the growing demand for healthcare BPOs, as they reduce paperwork and provide record details of a patient electronically, is positively influencing the market. In line with this, the rising awareness among individuals about the wide availability of several health insurance plans and telehealth services is bolstering the growth of the market. Additionally, the increasing adoption of healthcare BPOs, as they provide easy access to skilled workforce and lowers the chances of errors and risks, is offering lucrative growth opportunities to industry investors. Apart from this, there is a rise in the demand for enhanced patient care and safety in healthcare facilities across the globe. This, coupled with the increasing adoption of healthcare BPOs, as they provide enhanced data security and reduce the workload and manage time-consuming tasks in an organization, is propelling the growth of the market. In addition to this, the rising emergence of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools that assist in making the drug discovery process more efficient is contributing to the growth of the market. Moreover, the growing utilization of healthcare BPOs to increase productivity and enhance workflow efficiency is offering a favorable market outlook. Additionally, the rising employment of healthcare BPOs to generate more profit margins in a business is impelling the growth of the market. Furthermore, governing agencies of various countries are encouraging the adoption of healthcare BPOs, as they reduce healthcare costs in an organization, which is impelling the growth of the market.
Key Market Segmentation:
Payer Service Insights:
- Human Resource Management
- Claims Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Operational and Administrative Management
- Care Management
- Provider Management
- Others
- Human resource management comprises recruiting, hiring, and managing employees of an organization. It ensures the safety and welfare of employees and assists in making healthy relations among employers, employees, and business organizations. Moreover, it encourages team spirit and teamwork while providing plans to achieve goals.
- Customer relationship management comprises the combination of practices, strategies, and technologies to manage and analyze customer relations. It is beneficial in managing external interactions with customers and optimizing sales in a business. Apart from this, it easily tracks performance goals and sales and improves customer retention.
Provider Service Insights:
- Patient Enrollment and Strategic Planning
- Patient Care Service
- Revenue Cycle Management
- Patient care service is therapeutics and diagnostics services provided by the hospital to inpatients and outpatients suffering from various health problems. In addition, it focuses on enhanced safety, comfort, and the health of patients. Various healthcare organizations are offering enhanced patient care solutions and handling and answering numerous queries of them.
- Patient enrollment and strategic planning is the process of registering a patient into a clinical trial by incorporating different suitable strategies. They assist in choosing the best patients for the trial and have a flexible outreach plan. Also, the right enrollment strategy will incorporate materials for pre-screening and aid in minimizing the trial costs.
Pharmaceutical Service Insights:
- Manufacturing Services
- Research and Development Services
- Non-clinical Services
- Research and development (R&D) services refer to the series of activities that are designed to reach the goal of discovering and delivering new medical drugs, devices, and therapies to market. They comprise pre-clinical research and discovery of innovative drugs, clinical testing of prescription drugs in trials, preparation and submission of applications for Food and drug administration (FDA) approval, designing production processes for the new product, and testing of a new drug against existing drug to ultimately show the superior benefits of the new drugs.
- Non-clinical services comprise supply chain management and logistics, sales and marketing services, such as forecasting, performance reporting, analytics, research, and marketing in pharmaceuticals.
Regional Insights:
- North America
- United States
- Canada
- Asia-Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- South Korea
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Others
- Europe
- Germany
- France
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Spain
- Russia
- Others
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Others
- Middle East and Africa
- The report has also provided a comprehensive analysis of all the major regional markets, which include North America (the United States and Canada); Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, and others); Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Russia, and others); Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and others); and the Middle East and Africa. According to the report, North America (the United States and Canada) was the largest market for healthcare BPO. The growing adoption of healthcare BPO due to the strong reimbursement framework is propelling the growth of the market. Apart from this, the rising utilization of healthcare BPO to optimize operational costs and improve patient safety is bolstering the growth of the market. Moreover, the increasing emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in disease diagnosis is contributing to the growth of the market in the region.
Competitive Landscape:
The report has also provided a comprehensive analysis of the competitive landscape in the global healthcare BPO market. Competitive analysis such as market structure, market share by key players, player positioning, top winning strategies, competitive dashboard, and company evaluation quadrant has been covered in the report. Also, detailed profiles of all major companies have been provided. Some of the companies covered include:
- Accenture plc
- Cognizant
- GeBBS Healthcare Solutions
- Genpact
- International Business Machines Corporation
- IQVIA
- NTT Data Corporation
- Omega Healthcare
- Parexel International Corporation
- Tata Consultancy Services
- WNS (Holdings) Limited
- Xerox Corporation
Key Questions Answered in This Report
- 1.What was the size of the global healthcare BPO market in 2024?
- 2.What is the expected growth rate of the global healthcare BPO market during 2025-2033?
- 3.What has been the impact of COVID-19 on the global healthcare BPO market?
- 4.What are the key factors driving the global healthcare BPO market?
- 5.What is the breakup of the global healthcare BPO market based on the payer service?
- 6.What is the breakup of the global healthcare BPO market based on the provider service?
- 7.What are the key regions in the global healthcare BPO market?
- 8.Who are the key players/companies in the global healthcare BPO market?
Table of Contents
1 Preface
2 Scope and Methodology
- 2.1 Objectives of the Study
- 2.2 Stakeholders
- 2.3 Data Sources
- 2.3.1 Primary Sources
- 2.3.2 Secondary Sources
- 2.4 Market Estimation
- 2.4.1 Bottom-Up Approach
- 2.4.2 Top-Down Approach
- 2.5 Forecasting Methodology
3 Executive Summary
4 Introduction
- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 Key Industry Trends
5 Global Healthcare BPO Market
- 5.1 Market Overview
- 5.2 Market Performance
- 5.3 Impact of COVID-19
- 5.4 Market Forecast
6 Market Breakup by Payer Service
- 6.1 Human Resource Management
- 6.1.1 Market Trends
- 6.1.2 Market Forecast
- 6.2 Claims Management
- 6.2.1 Market Trends
- 6.2.2 Market Forecast
- 6.3 Customer Relationship Management
- 6.3.1 Market Trends
- 6.3.2 Market Forecast
- 6.4 Operational and Administrative Management
- 6.4.1 Market Trends
- 6.4.2 Market Forecast
- 6.5 Care Management
- 6.5.1 Market Trends
- 6.5.2 Market Forecast
- 6.6 Provider Management
- 6.6.1 Market Trends
- 6.6.2 Market Forecast
- 6.7 Others
- 6.7.1 Market Trends
- 6.7.2 Market Forecast
7 Market Breakup by Provider Service
- 7.1 Patient Enrollment and Strategic Planning
- 7.1.1 Market Trends
- 7.1.2 Market Forecast
- 7.2 Patient Care Service
- 7.2.1 Market Trends
- 7.2.2 Market Forecast
- 7.3 Revenue Cycle Management
- 7.3.1 Market Trends
- 7.3.2 Market Forecast
8 Market Breakup by Pharmaceutical Service
- 8.1 Manufacturing Services
- 8.1.1 Market Trends
- 8.1.2 Market Forecast
- 8.2 Research and Development Services
- 8.2.1 Market Trends
- 8.2.2 Market Forecast
- 8.3 Non-clinical Services
- 8.3.1 Market Trends
- 8.3.2 Market Forecast
9 Market Breakup by Region
- 9.1 North America
- 9.1.1 United States
- 9.1.1.1 Market Trends
- 9.1.1.2 Market Forecast
- 9.1.2 Canada
- 9.1.2.1 Market Trends
- 9.1.2.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2 Asia-Pacific
- 9.2.1 China
- 9.2.1.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.1.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2.2 Japan
- 9.2.2.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.2.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2.3 India
- 9.2.3.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.3.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2.4 South Korea
- 9.2.4.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.4.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2.5 Australia
- 9.2.5.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.5.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2.6 Indonesia
- 9.2.6.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.6.2 Market Forecast
- 9.2.7 Others
- 9.2.7.1 Market Trends
- 9.2.7.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3 Europe
- 9.3.1 Germany
- 9.3.1.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.1.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3.2 France
- 9.3.2.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.2.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3.3 United Kingdom
- 9.3.3.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.3.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3.4 Italy
- 9.3.4.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.4.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3.5 Spain
- 9.3.5.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.5.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3.6 Russia
- 9.3.6.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.6.2 Market Forecast
- 9.3.7 Others
- 9.3.7.1 Market Trends
- 9.3.7.2 Market Forecast
- 9.4 Latin America
- 9.4.1 Brazil
- 9.4.1.1 Market Trends
- 9.4.1.2 Market Forecast
- 9.4.2 Mexico
- 9.4.2.1 Market Trends
- 9.4.2.2 Market Forecast
- 9.4.3 Others
- 9.4.3.1 Market Trends
- 9.4.3.2 Market Forecast
- 9.5 Middle East and Africa
- 9.5.1 Market Trends
- 9.5.2 Market Breakup by Country
- 9.5.3 Market Forecast
10 SWOT Analysis
- 10.1 Overview
- 10.2 Strengths
- 10.3 Weaknesses
- 10.4 Opportunities
- 10.5 Threats
11 Value Chain Analysis
12 Porters Five Forces Analysis
- 12.1 Overview
- 12.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers
- 12.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
- 12.4 Degree of Competition
- 12.5 Threat of New Entrants
- 12.6 Threat of Substitutes
13 Price Analysis
14 Competitive Landscape
- 14.1 Market Structure
- 14.2 Key Players
- 14.3 Profiles of Key Players
- 14.3.1 Accenture plc
- 14.3.1.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.1.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.1.3 Financials
- 14.3.1.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.2 Cognizant
- 14.3.2.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.2.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.2.3 Financials
- 14.3.2.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.3 GeBBS Healthcare Solutions
- 14.3.3.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.3.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.4 Genpact
- 14.3.4.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.4.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.4.3 Financials
- 14.3.4.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.5 International Business Machines Corporation
- 14.3.5.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.5.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.5.3 Financials
- 14.3.5.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.6 IQVIA
- 14.3.6.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.6.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.6.3 Financials
- 14.3.6.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.7 NTT Data Corporation
- 14.3.7.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.7.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.7.3 Financials
- 14.3.7.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.8 Omega Healthcare
- 14.3.8.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.8.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.9 Parexel International Corporation
- 14.3.9.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.9.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.9.3 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.10 Tata Consultancy Services
- 14.3.10.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.10.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.10.3 Financials
- 14.3.10.4 SWOT Analysis
- 14.3.11 WNS (Holdings) Limited
- 14.3.11.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.11.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.11.3 Financials
- 14.3.12 Xerox Corporation
- 14.3.12.1 Company Overview
- 14.3.12.2 Product Portfolio
- 14.3.12.3 Financials
- 14.3.12.4 SWOT Analysis