Public hospitals demand a “significant” increase in their prices. The evolution of the cost of services since 2020 does not compensate for the changes in the type of patients treated and the increase in costs.
The executive must “support” in particular the specialties which take care of heavy and complex cases “with overnight stays’. “The urgency” is also to reduce “the public health debt’, argues the French Hospital Federation. This 2024 pricing campaign has all the makings of an impossible equation.