2023-05-16 03:17:45
The health insurance companies are expecting a deficit of EUR 578.7 million for this year. This means that the current forecast by the umbrella organization for the three sponsors is EUR 50.6 million worse than three months ago. A further minus is expected for the next four years, albeit at a much lower level. For 2022, the preliminary income statement shows a minus of 421.2 million euros, after 354.5 million euros had been expected in February.
It is expected that the three providers – the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK), the BVAEB for civil servants, railway workers and miners, and the SVS for the self-employed and farmers – will take in a total of EUR 24.084 billion this year. The largest items are expected to be 6.248 billion euros for medical assistance, 4.821 billion euros for remedies and 6.245 billion euros for “institutional care and medical home nursing – transfer to the hospital fund”.
When asked by the APA, the chairman of the Conference of Social Security Institutions, Peter Lehner, brought this up in connection with the current financial equalization negotiations. “6.3 billion euros will be transferred from social security to the federal states for the hospitals in 2023. That is 400 million or around 7 percent more than last year,” he criticized. For 2026, the management forecast provides another billion for the hospital fund, then 7.252 billion euros should flow into this area.
“This cross-financing of the federal states – without transparency and a say – takes away our leeway for the established area and primary care in social security. We have to stop this development,” explained Lehner in a written statement. Once again he called for a freeze on payments to the hospital fund.
Once again, the SVS, in which Lehner acts as chairman, did best in the financial forecast. Although a minus is also predicted for 2023 (SVS: -60.1, ÖGK -336.9, BVAEB -181.7 million euros), in the following years the self-employed fund is the only one able to turn positive (2024: 30 ,2, 2025: 37.8, 2026: 39.8, 2027: 36.4 million euros), while the other two funds in the forecast calculated up to 2027 continue to face a continuous minus.
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