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Written by ATS
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mardi, 21 mars 2006 |
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 BERN - Switzerland crosses a stage in the reform of the financing of her hospitals: SwissDRG, the association of the Swiss actors of the health, is going to sign a contract which will allow it to introduce the German system of fixed prices by case.
It is to the member of the Council of State bâlois Carlo Conti, president of SwissDRG, that will return on Wednesday evening to Berlin the care of signing the contract of cooperation with the German institute InEK. This non-profit organization is specialized in the payment for the hospitable costs, indicated SwissDRG in a communiqué.
Switzerland can resume from then on the model G-DRG (for German Diagnosis Related Groups). Switzerland will introduce it into all its hospitals after having adapted it to the Helvetian conditions.
This new shape of payment has the advantage to distribute the hospitable services in groups of services, clarifies Swiss-DRG. They will be estimated in all Switzerland according to the same criteria, what will allow to compare them better. | | |
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Written by TSR & SwissMED.net™
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mercredi, 08 mars 2006 |
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 The part of cantons in the financing of hospitals should be modulated according to the level of insurance allowances disease, decided on Wednesday the Council of States.
The Upper Chamber adopted by 25 votes against 1 a new model, having given up upsetting all the system. This solution, which should be introduced before 2009, foresees a joint financing of the hospital services by the insurers and the cantons. These last ones will pay a part of at least 60 %, a rate chosen to avoid an increase of premiums, explained Christiane Brunner ( PS / GE) in the name of the commission. Flexible rate An exception is however foreseen: the minimal rate could fall to 45 % for cantons (18 at present) the average premiums of which for adults are lower than the national average. Christoffel Brändli ( UDC / GR) and Anita Fetz ( PS / BS) pleaded, with the support of the federal councillor Pascal Couchepin, for a fixed rate of 60 %.
Any exception will be made at the cost of the insurers and thus the insurants who will see their premium increasing, they exploited in vain. The proposition was thrown back(rejected) by 24 votes against 13. By 29 votes against 11, the Council also refused to follow Philipp Stähelin ( PDC / TG), who suggested lowering the rate reduced to 40 %. | | |
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Written by SwissMED.net™
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vendredi, 03 mars 2006 |
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The costs of the health increased by 3,7 % from 2003 till 2004 to reach 51,7 billion francs. This increase is more contained than previous years. The insurants and the households more paid out while the State reduced its 1,6 % financing, indicated on Friday the Federal Office of the Statistics. The increase of the costs strikes mainly the ambulatory services. The increase is there stronger in 2004 (5 %) than on the previous two years (2,2 % in 2002, 2,7 % in 2003). The annual variation over the period from 1995 till 2003 is 3,5 %.
Hospitals show on the other hand a progress of the costs weaker than averages it, in 3,1 %. Such a phenomenon had not occurred any more since 1998. The annual average increase between 1995 and 2003 is 4,3 % in this sector.
Moderate increase also towards establishments for old persons: the costs progressed of 2,7 % in 2004. This collapse was begun in 2003 (3,8 %) after some years of sharp increases (7,4 % in 2001, 7 % in 2002). The costs grew of 5 % from 1995 till 2003.
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