Hospitals in the Andalucia Health Service SAS are to start informing patients about the cost of their treatment. The measure is designed to make the public aware of the expense and to try and stop abuse in the system.It means that patients will be told something along the lines of ‘Now you can go home, everything is fine. You should know that the cost of the treatment given to you during your stay is 15,000 €’.
El País reports that the idea was launched on Thursday by the Regional Councillor for Health, María Jesús Montero. She described the idea as a ‘factura sombra’ - shadow bill.
Some of the costs estimated using 2008 prices are 1,500 € for a birth with no complications, and 2,000 € as a daily cost for a patient in intensive care.
During the year the SAS attended to 3.1 million emergency cases which needed no admission to hospital; over the 12 months 550,117 people were admitted.
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