2023-05-05 11:19:00
The figure, from a study published on May 5, corresponded to the remainder to be paid in 2018 after reimbursements from Health Insurance and complementary health insurance.
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Dvariations according to age and income. According to a geographical study by the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics of the Ministry of Health, the French spent, on average, 2,750 euros per year for treatment in 2018. A figure that is, in detail, more complex with large differences: the assessment ranging from 2,290 euros in Loire-Atlantique, to 3,550 euros in Haute-Corse.
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Once corrected for the age and sex of the population, health expenditure remains higher in the overseas departments, in Corsica, in the northeast metropolitan quarter, and around the Mediterranean, according to the study. “Health expenditure is thus a little higher in those where the poverty rate is the highest”, notes the DREES. “Indeed, the most precarious patients are likely to need more care, even if they are also the most affected by the renunciation of care. »
A high medical density that pushes up spending?
Health expenditure per inhabitant also tends to be higher in the departments “where the standard of living of the wealthiest is the highest”, and in those where the supply of care is more abundant, notes the study. “In certain departments around the Mediterranean, the high level of expenditure is linked to high medical density,” notes the study.
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Another factor inflating health spending per capita is the “geographic modulation of regulatory healthcare tariffs” in the overseas departments, Île-de-France and Corsica. These higher tariffs could “on their own […] explain the increase in health expenditure observed in the overseas departments”, according to the note.
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