Hospital Z has a high percentage of follow-up surgeries. Those are surgeries that have to be done after the first surgery is not successful. In most cases this happens when patients are willing to be treated in this hospital, which is considerably cheaper compared to others in the region. Follow-up surgeries are done at the expense of hospital Z and reduce its income drastically.Which of the following is the best solution to reduce the number of the follow-up surgeries?
A. Hospital Z has to ensure that all its patients know the risks compared to the more expensive options available
B. Hospital Z needs to hire more professional staff without increasing its prices.
C. Hospital Z needs to decrease the number of patients it serves.
D. Hospital Z needs to increase its prices significantly in order to decrease the number of patients.
E. Hospital Z needs to charge patients for follow-up surgeries, even if the patients would cover 30% of the cost of these surgeries.

Hi Gaurav,

Interesting question - do you know where it came from? It doesn't read much like a GMAT question, so I wouldn't worry too much about this one:

-Choices C and D essentially say the same thing, just with D adding an extra step (raising prices in order to decrease patients, whereas C just says to decrease patients)
-In the stimulus, the second sentence starting with "Those" is a little too grammatically awkward to have been written by the GMAT.
-The third sentence of the stimulus doesn't make much sense, either - the situation is limited to Hospital Z, so to say that "in most cases this happens when patients are willing to be treated in this hospital" doesn't add much value...of course Hospital Z's problems will happen when (willing) patients attend Hospital Z, and not at any other time.

Because of all of those problems, I wouldn't be too concerned about this problem, as you wouldn't see this question on the GMAT...

Thanks a lot brian,
the source of this question is 800 score test 5.
I agree with you that the question doesn't look much like a gmat problem.

I also wanted to know that what is the problem with E except that it specifies the percentage?

BTW OA:D