Hospital chiefs are looking for ways to slash a seven-year waiting list for circumcision in Tuen Mun.
A solution is being offered to private doctors.
For $500 per patient, they can use Tuen Mun Hospital's operating theatre to perform the surgery on boys whose parents are willing to pay. Fees would be a matter between parents and doctors.
At one of Hong Kong's cheaper private hospitals, the surgical team's fee for a circumcision ranges from $3,400 to $7,650. The same hospital charges from $2,380 to $3,080 for use of an operating theatre.
Demand has been growing among Hong Kong parents to have boys circumcised, and Tuen Mun Hospital, the only general hospital in New Territories West, has been unable to cope. The nearest private hospital to Tuen Mun is at Sha Tin.
Hospital Authority officials put forward the proposal to let private doctors do the work in a meeting earlier this month with the Hong Kong Medical Association.
Dr Choi Kin, who sits on the association's council, said the authority was also asking for its members' help to reduce the three-year wait for a hernia operation.