The project was realized with the cantonaux directors of the health, the federal Office of the statistics and the insurers, indicated on Friday in front of the press its responsible Till Bandi. The first quarterly "monitoring" will be published in April. It will base itself on invoices paid by medicaid (Datenpool
santésuisse), by taking into account franchisings of the insurants. The gap between the data collection, which cover 95 % of the insurants, and their appearance on the net will belong to the worst of three months.
The site of the OFSP will also show the evolution of the cost of the medical treatments, the medicines prescribed by the doctors, of the ambulatory or hospitable domain, the care, the pharmacies, the laboratories, the physiotherapy or still the services of care at home. But station in the hasty interpretations, launches Till Bandi.
Numerous factors must be taken into account to avoid erroneous conclusions. The statistics notably depend on seasonal fluctuations in the demand of care, on the concentration of discounts late in the year or still the delays of invoicing.
The correlation between the increases of the premiums of the compulsory assurance - Whose announcement provokes every autumn of the contestings - and the evolution of the raw costs will be evident, adds the leader of the OFSP Thomas Zeltner. The premiums are based on projections for the next year while the barometer reflects the invoicing of the paid off expenses.
T.Zeltner counts on the new instrument to estimate the measures of incitement and economy within the framework of the
LAMal. The increase of the volume of the services is the main cause of the average increase of 5 % of the costs of the health but we can act at present only on the price of the services according to Thomas Zeltner.
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