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Hospitals overcharge for medical devices. Isolated practice or symptom of a more serious problem?

Published on December 16, 2024 at 5:47 p.m. / Modified on December 17, 2024 at 07:20.

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Some hospitals in Switzerland have collected large sums of money on the purchase of common medical devices, an investigation by the Daily Gazette, published in French in the Tamedia French-speaking newspapers. The German-speaking daily cites the example of a hospital having billed 17,000 francs to health insurance for stents and balloons – instruments used to keep blocked arteries open – for which it had paid 1,462 francs. How is this practice of overcharging possible?

Read also: The incompetence of the authorities in the face of overbilling in health insurance

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