The Government has decided to increase the prices of public and private hospitals by 0.5%, showing the same treatment in both sectors to avoid burning powders like last year.
“There is total equity between the public and private sector, which is an important change compared to last year,” said Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor and Health, presenting to journalists the 2025 figures with the minister in charge of the health Yannick Neuder.
In 2024, the Government announced a 4.3% increase in public hospital prices and 0.3% for the private hospital.
Furious, the Federation of the Private Hospital had announced a general strike of its establishments, finally suspended in the limb due to the announcement of new financial commitments of the government.
“A difficult budget context”
In 2025, the increase in prices was accompanied by an increase in other envelopes for hospitals, which in general showed very degraded financial health.
On the side of public hospitals, the increase in retirement contributions for hospital officials, more than one billion euros, according to the estimate of public hospitals, will be completely covered by new funds.
Private hospitalization will benefit from an envelope of 80 million euros to apply a 2023 social agreement, which should allow revaluation of staff wages.
Private hospitals will also receive 220 million euros in 2025, an adjustment linked to the end of the Cice application (tax and employment tax) in regard to them.
In a statement, the FHF (French Hospital Federation) that Federá to public hospitals has “welcomed” government “in public health priorities and public establishments, despite a difficult budgetary context.”
“With an increase in prices of 0.5% (…), the government has its desire to support the beginning of the resumption of the activity that has been manifested in the public hospital since last year. And this, even if the evolution remains below the increase in the trend in expenses,” he said.
The FHF is particularly cozy of higher revaluations for certain sectors, such as “pediatric resuscitation activities for adults and neonatalogy (+2.5%)”, or psychiatry (+2.7%).
In general, the financial situation in the hospital sector is not good today, especially on the public side.
3.5 billion euros deficit in 2024
Public hospitals must show 3.5 billion euros in 2024, according to FHF figures, their National Federation.
Private establishments also have difficulties. The FHP estimated last year that 50 to 60% of private hospitals would end the year in deficit.
In total, health insurance spending in hospitals (hospital prices and other measures) increased by 3.8% by 2025, to 109.6 billion, which represents about 41% of total health insurance expenses, according to the security budget approved by Parliament. They benefited in particular from an impulse of one billion decided by the Bayroun government, after the fall of the Barnier government.
Source: BFM TV
