This is evident from an analysis of reports from 79 hospitals (95 percent of the sector) by purchasing cooperative of care, Intrakoop and accountants Verstegen appearing Monday.
The cost per patient in 2015, as as in previous years, increased faster than the revenues of hospitals. The patient-related costs increased in 2015 by 5.8 percent (4.9 billion euros). In 2014, these costs rose even by 4.8 percent
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” Our figures show that almost 38 percent of patient-related costs in hospitals is spent on drugs ” says Intrakoop director Frank Kaptein. According to him, especially growing use of expensive drugs. Again hospitals provide drugs that were previously paid from the so-called medicines reimbursement system.
In spite of increase in healthcare costs and operating expenses involved hospitals in 2015 performed well financially much better. Together hospitals booked a net profit of 541 million euros. That’s nearly 100 million more than in 2014.
The study shows that the number of hospital admissions decreased in 2015 by 1.5 percent to 1.6 million shots. The number of outpatient treatments decreased by 4.8 percent
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