Public hospitals demanded at the beginning of March a “significant” increase in their prices, considered “obsolete” due in particular to inflation. Public authorities must soon make their decisions concerning the evolution for 2024 of hospitalization rates covered by Health Insurance.
These price scales - the price for cataract surgery or appendicitis, for example - determine around 60% of public hospital revenues. “Six out of ten French people said they had given up on care at least once in the last five years for multiple reasons, mainly waiting times that were too long in certain services,” pointed out Arnaud Robinet.