2024-01-26 14:25:41
Private hospitals and clinics will barely break even financially in 2023 and in losses in medicine, surgery and obstetrics activities, according to forecasts released this Friday by their federation, the FHP (Federation of Private Hospitalization).
The net profit of the private sector “is reduced to almost zero in 2023, and would become negative for establishments of medicine, obstetric surgery“, with a forecast loss of 200 million euros for these establishments, according to a study by the Roland Berger firm carried out at the request of the FHP.
The FHP is sounding this alarm as the government must decide next week on inflation compensation for 2023 for the hospital sector.
Hospitals in all sectors (public, private, private non-profit, cancer centers, home hospitalization) have requested 1.5 billion euros from the government to compensate for the increase in prices.
But the executivewould only go for 500 million, or a third of our request“, “well below the flotation threshold to update establishments“, says Lamine Gharbi.
Private hospitals are also demanding funding for salary increase measures announced by the government, in particular those for night and weekend shifts and funding for a recent agreement between social partners on remuneration.
This financing must be integrated into the new price scales, which will be set by March 31 by the State, requests the FHP.
According to the Federation’s calculations, the transposition of the so-called Guerini measures (revaluations in the civil service) and Borne (night and weekend guards) represent a financing need of 351 million euros in 2024. The agreement of the social partners represents 450 million euros.
The 1,030 private clinics and hospitals and their 160,000 healthcare professionals provide 35% of hospital activity, according to the Roland Berger study. Their 122 emergency services support more than 15% of annual visits.
In 2021-2022, the sector carried out around 600,000 additional treatments in total for “catch up“care not provided during the health crisis.
More “our production costs are above our prices. The more we work, the more our margins deteriorate“, assures Lamine Gharbi.
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