The federation of private hospitalization is asking the government to increase its prices for medicine, surgery and obstetrics by 2.75%.
In 2013, health insurance spending was lower than expected. Less than a billion compared to the national health insurance expenditure target (ONDAM) voted in Parliament, according to Bernard Cazeneuve, the minister responsible for the budget, who was recently questioned by the Finance Committee of the National Assembly This good news for the Social Security budget rekindles the rivalry between the private and public sectors.
Clinics, “the good student of the class”
The Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP) thus made it known that it was “the good student of the class” in terms of expenditure. Of the 76.5 billion euros dedicated to healthcare establishments (i.e. nearly 44% of the global ONDAM), the FHP recalled that clinics largely respected the expenditure envelope allocated to them since they managed to save 137 million euros in the specialties of medicine, surgery and obstetrics (MCO).
“In this context where the public authorities are delighted with the control of health expenditure and where private hospitalization is demonstrating its efficiency, how could we understand at the end of the 2014 pricing campaign that the same public authorities are compromising the future of private health establishments by once again applying too low tariffs to them? »Said Jean-Loup Durousset, the president of the FHP. “How can we also imagine that they are setting up a new system of degressive hospital tariffs? ”Remember that the degressivity device, introduced in the 2014 PLFSS, aims to reduce hospital prices according to the level of activity of health establishments.
One third of clinics in the red
While the last arbitrations are taking place concerning the setting of the prices of the establishments, the FHP wants a revaluation of its prices, especially as the economic situation of the clinics is deteriorating: 37% of the clinics were in the red in 2012. The federation thus hopes that the prices of MCO care will increase “by at least 2.75%” in 2014. “We ask the government to set up a significant catch-up in 2014, in view of the perfect control, by the private sector MCO of its spending targets for two years, ”the clinics union demanded in a statement. Will the government be sensitive to these arguments? The Minister of Health and the Minister for the Budget recalled today that public hospitals had also respected their expenses, since in 2012, these establishments had saved 117 million euros in 2012.
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