Hospital and clinic bills will soon rise, and much more than the previous year, according to information in the newspaper the echoes.
The government should soon validate the salary scales of hospitals whose rates billed to Social Security will skyrocket by 7.1% for public hospitals. The increase will be 6.7% for private non-profit hospitals and 5.4% for private for-profit hospitals.
Prices had risen very little the year before.
The increase that will be applied to the activities of medicine, surgery and obstetrics must be compared with a much lower increase of 0.7% over these same rates the previous year. The difference is due to taking into account inflation and salary increases.
The new rates are based on an increase in hospital activity estimated at 0.9%. An increase that, however, could be difficult to achieve due, among other things, to the shortage of personnel.
1,200 million euros is the additional budget that hospitals would need to offset inflation, according to the Private Hospitalization Federation cited by the economic newspaper. Therefore, the federation asks the state for more generous financial support through the revision of the national health insurance spending target for 2023.
Source: BFM TV
