Hospital prices up sharply in 2023, announces the Minister of Health

The Minister of Health and Prevention François Braun announced, on Friday March 31, sharply rising hospital prices for 2023 in order to support health establishments in the face of inflation and support their resumption of activity.

In detail, the prices charged to Social Security will increase in 2023 by 7.06% for public hospitals, said his ministry in a press release.

6.7% increase in the private sector

Regarding the private sector, the increase will reach 6.7% for non-profit establishments and 5.4% for those in the for-profit sector, it added. These rising prices “concretize an unprecedented level of the national objective of health insurance expenditure (Ondam) health establishments, now increased to 101.1 billion euros”, says the ministry. In total, 4.6 billion euros of additional funding will be devoted to hospitals in 2023.

This new expenditure includes 2.4 billion planned to deal with the evolution of the current resources of establishments, in particular in an exceptional context of inflation in 2023, and one billion for the extension to a full year of the revaluation of the point index for hospital officials from July 2022. In addition, 400 million euros will be dedicated to the continuation of the commitments of the Ségur de la santé and 600 million euros to the financing of measures to increase night work for establishments public health, it is further added.