Good news for hospitals and clinics! The government had promised, in the last budget of the social security system, to give them "visibility" on their budgets, so far fixed annually. They are now assured of an increase in their prices over the next three years (2020, 2021 and 2022). Agnès Buzyn, the Minister of Health, and the five hospital federations (FHF, FHP, Fehap, Fnehad and Unicancer) have indeed signed " the first memorandum of understanding on the minimum multi- annual development of resources for the period 2020-2022 "Said the ministry on Thursday. Clearly, this document guarantees minimum increases in funding for each major sector of activity: + 0.2% per year in OCM (medicine, surgery, obstetrics), + 1.9% in psychiatry and SRH (follow-up care and rehabilitation), + 1.5% in HAD (hospitalization at home). For 2020, the increase - which will take place in March - goes even beyond, with an increase of 0.6% in OLS and 2.2% in psychiatry.
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Agnès Buzyn, who raised hospital prices last year for the first time in ten years, intends to send an additional pledge of " the break with the long cycle of tariff cuts that establishments have experienced " from 2011 to 2018. This visibility must allow hospitals to better organize their investment policy. In addition, these figures include the incentive to quality, which must double this year to 400 million, then increase to 2 billion in 2022. The set of measures to increase hospital prices represents an effort of 540 million euros per year, an additional envelope of 1.5 billion for hospitals over three years.
The Federation hospitalière de France (FHF), which represents the public, welcomed a "double advance"The Federation hospitalière de France (FHF), which represents the public, welcomed a " double advance ", which allows "to go beyond the framework of an annual construction of the national hospital budget, Ondam, which created a a real climate of uncertainty for hospitals ”, and which opens“ the way for collective and concrete work to improve the relevance of care ”. Same satisfaction in the private sector. " This is a real cultural break for the hospital world ," said Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHP. Our establishments will no longer have to wait feverishly, every year, for the price cleaver to fall. "