Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot141310.32687/0869-866X-2025-33-1-79-84НеопределенTrends and The perspectives of development of market of commercial medical servicesThe Self-Regulating Organization “Saint Petersburg Private Clinics Association”, 190000, St. Petersburg, RussiaThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University” of Minzdrav of Russia, 194100, St. Petersburg, RussiaThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Saint Petersburg State University”, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia160420253311604202516042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article considers directions of development of market of commercial medical services exemplified by St. Petersburg. The regional market of commercial medicine plays important role in health care of the Russian Federation. The commercial medicine permits to reduce deficiency of state financing of medicine in Russia at the expense of increasing of solvency of population making demand for commercial medical services. Among regional markets of commercial medicine, the most developed are markets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The subjective and objective factors affecting formation of barriers for entering market of commercial medical services in region are identified. The prospects of development of regional market of commercial medicine are presented on the basis of construction dynamic series and estimates based on ratings obtained by reducing verbal assessments into numerical form. The study results can be useful and of interest for both business and regional health care authorities. The presented trends and prospects of development of market of commercial medical services in St. Petersburg reflect strategic directions of modernization of health care through prism of replication of best practices of increasing satisfaction of patients with quality of medical services.</p>medical servicescommercial medical servicesmedical services marketregionSt. Petersburgмедицинские услугикоммерческие медицинские услугирынок медицинских услугрегионСанкт-Петербург1.Snegireva Yu. Yu., Ananchenkova P. I., Gurckoj L. D., Shkrumyak A. R., Metel'skaya A. V. Management of human resources of a private medical organization. The Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine. 2023;31(S2):1257–62 (in Russian).2.Volnuhin A. V., Morozova T. E., Skvirskaya G. P., Reze A. G., Gurdzhar M. V., Gercog A. A., Samohina E. O., Zaugol'nikova T. V. Social, demographic and professional characteristics of general practitioners and district general practitioners in the public and private health sectors. The Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine. 2024;32(2):155–62 (in Russian).3.Zudin A. B., Snegireva Yu. Yu., Ananchenkova P. I., Metel'-skaya A. V. Improving the activities of private medical organisations under the influence of modern trends in healthcare development. Remedium. 2023;27(4):325–32 (in Russian).4.Gajdarov G. M., Makarov S. V., Liflyander-Pacherskih A. A. Analysis of the medical personnel potential of the dental service of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation taking into account its private sector. The Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine. 2024;32(4):848–54 (in Russian).5.Babenko A. A. Specifics of organisation of marketing activity in the sphere of paid medical services. Glavvrach. 2017;(1):73–7 (in Russian).6.Tatarnikov M. A. Managing the quality of medical care. Мoscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2016 (in Russian).7.Vorob'eva V. Tools to improve the quality of care. Medsestra. 2017;(5–6):51–3 (in Russian).8.Omel'chenko V. P. Informatics, medical informatics, statistics. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2021 (in Russian).9.Nesterov O. L. Levels of quality control of medical care. Medical Statistics and Organisational Methodology in Health Care Institutions. 2023;(8):53–8 (in Russian).10.Il'chenko G. V., Ishchenko O. Yu., Ol'hovskaya Yu. A. Aspects of digital technology adoption in health service delivery (literature review). The Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine. 2024;32(3):325–31 (in Russian).