2024-07-29 14:18:15
Local care is deviating from the target set by the Social Security budget 2024 and risks increasing the deficit planned by an additional 500 million euros, as an alert committee on the evolution of health insurance costs. There is “The highest risk to exceed the environmental protection target given the increase in this expenditure during the first six months of 2024”Wrote the committee, in its new opinion to Monday July 29 about daily life The echoes.
This committee of experts is responsible for monitoring every six months the gap between the actual Health Insurance expenditure and the estimate set by the Social Security Financial Act (LFSS). LFSS predicts that local care will represent an expenditure of 108.4 billion euros in 2024. But in the first six months of the year, “real money” linked to urban maintenance increased by + 5.7% compared to the same period in 2023, i.e. an additional 1.5 points compared to the target of + 4.2%, they analyzed.
Concerns the gap “more than” Public health centers: medical biology, patient transportation, fees for specialist doctors, masseurs-physiotherapists, sick leave, drugs and medical devices, board information, notice “strong” of support size.
Storage deemed “insufficient”
Many variables should change the budget in the second half of the year, they continued, pointing out in particular the increase in income due to the doubling of “Frances” – is the responsibility of patients for medicines or consultations – took place on April 1 and May 15, or increases in expenses after the renewal of the prices of private doctors, recently completed between the associations and health insurance.
Finally, the commission estimates that the total cost could be removed by around 1 billion euros by the end of 2024. The LFSS always includes a “save” in the event of exceeding the national health expenditure target (Ondam), but this is “not enough”, say experts. They remember the serious shortage of public hospitals, and note that an increase of 170 million euros is granted by mid-2024 to private for-profit health establishments.
By using the few reserves that can be mobilized, and anticipating the reduction in the medical biology expenses recently negotiated with the representatives of the analysis companies, the committee estimates that Ondam can finally exceed more than 500 million euros at the end of the year. This amount “important” is however “under the swinging door”set at 0.5% of the forecast value of the fund, or 1.3 billion euros.
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