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Hospitals and other actors are demanding compensation for additional expenses from the crown. Open questions should be clarified with Federal Councilor Berset today.
To allow hospitals to react flexibly in the event of serious crown diseases, the Federal Council told them in the spring to refrain from non-urgent interventions for five weeks. That would cause losses, hospitals warned.
Canceled or postponed?
Health Minister Alain Berset took the position in May that these operations had not been canceled, but were only postponed: “If you can help not make unnecessary interventions, that would be a good thing.”
The H + Hospital Association has put the deficit at 2.6 billion Swiss francs. Director Anne-Geneviève Bütikofer: “The deficit in hospitals is a reality. Updated data shows that hospitals cannot catch up with all treatments and operations. “
Updated data shows that hospitals cannot catch up on all treatments and operations.
Request compensation
Hospitals are busy and losses cannot be recovered, explains Bütikofer. Hospitals want a joint solution and demand compensation for losses.
Other players in the health sector want this too, because of the costs due to overtime and additional equipment. The cantons also take the position that losses should be compensated.
Health insurance companies see no losses
But the figures from the health insurance companies show a different picture: the Santésuisse association writes: “In hospitals, sales in both hospital and outpatient settings have remained practically the same as the previous year.”
This could be due to treatment bills from previous years or complex inpatient crown treatment. In conclusion, that cannot be said yet.
Sales in both the hospital and outpatient settings remained practically the same as in the same period of the previous year.
The cantonal health directors conference (GDK) wants to discuss public sector compensation only if “the end result is a data-driven loss.”
The meeting should bring more clarity
Today, the different actors in the health sector meet with Federal Councilor Alain Berset to talk. There are also representatives from hospitals, doctors, cantons, and health insurance companies.
Health Minister Berset had expressed willingness to discuss crown-related issues on financing, but also expressed doubts whether the actual costs and losses can already be quantified.
Participants hope the meeting will take them one step further. For example, who is responsible for what and when. The effort to solve unresolved problems together unites interests that would otherwise be very different.
