Costs, financing

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Due to a full revision of the sources and methodology used to produce the summary statistic "Costs and financing of health care", the final 2020 data will not be published in the fourth quarter of 2022. The next publication (2021 data) is expected in the second quarter of 2023.

Health care costs 2020 (provisional data)

Health care costs in CHF million		83 311
	in CHF million	as % of total
Health care costs by service provider
Hospitals	30 873	37,1
Nursing and residential care facilities	13 927	16,7
Medical practices and outpatient centres 1	11 985	14,4
Costs of health care system by service type
Inpatient curative care	16 223	19,5
Outpatient curative care 1 2	20 178	24,2
Long-term care 3	17 209	20,7
Medical goods 1 4	12 694	15,2
Costs of health care system by financing schemes
State	18 136	21,8
Compulsory health insurance	31 563	37,9
Household out-of-pocket payments 1 5	18 020	21,6
Indicators of health care costs
Costs of health care system as percentage of GDP	11,8
Health care expenditure per capita and month in CHF	804

1 From 2017, survey data on medical practices, their services (including drugs, laboratory services, radiology) are available, the inclusion of which indirectly impacts household out-of-pocket payments.
2 The values are partly the result of an extrapolation and not of an annual estimate.
3 In and outpatient
4 Incl. medication in hospitals and medical practices
5 Incl. HIA and IPA cost sharing
Source: Health care costs and financing (COU)

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