Costs, financing

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Health care costs 2018p

Health care costs in CHF million 1		81 892
	in CHF million	as % of total
Health care costs by service provider
Hospitals	29 462	36,0
Nursing and residential care facilities	13 404	16,4
Medical practices and outpatient centres 2	13 894	17,0
Costs of health care system by service type
Inpatient curative care	15 548	19,0
Outpatient curative care 2 3	21 714	26,5
Long-term care 4	16 374	20,0
Medical goods 2 5	12 633	15,4
Costs of health care system by financing schemes
State	15 006	18,3
Compulsory health insurance	29 600	36,1
Household out-of-pocket payments 2 6	22 350	27,3
Indicators of health care costs
Costs of health care system as percentage of GDP	11,9
Health care expenditure per capita and month in CHF	802

p provisional data

1 New calculation as of 2010. Retropolation on the basis of previous growth rates for the years 1985-2009
2 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. 2017 data have been revised. As a consequence, previous years data have been adjusted as the result of an extrapolation on the base of previous growth rates applied to the revised 2017 data.
3 The values are partly the result of an extrapolation and not of an annual estimate.
4 In and outpatient
5 Incl. medication in hospitals and medical practices
6 Incl. HIA and IPA cost sharing
Source: Health care costs and financing (COU)

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