Health care sector in India has grown fast in the past few decades. The primary reason for existence of health care sector is to provide care for its patients and to satisfy their needs. Providing excellence in service is an imperative determinant for the escalation and development of health care units. The present study seeks to identify the effect of customers perceived value on customer satisfaction, loyalty and service quality of selected hospitals in the state of Chhattisgarh. With the help of 400 inpatient and outpatient sample respondent’s data were collected from ten hospitals covering four districts of Chhattisgarh. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for data collection with structured questionnaire. Structured equation modelling was performed for data analysis with the help of smart PLS v3 (trial). The study outcome revealed that the dimension customer perceived value is found to have positive effect on service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in health care sector of Chhattisgarh. Perceived value is also found to positively predict the dimension of service quality including assurance, tangibility, reliability, responsiveness and empathy.
Service Quality Assessment in Health Care Sector: The Case of Durres Public Hospital