Health Care System of Switzerland

The Cognitograph offers a unique overview of the health care system of Switzerland.

=> German version

 

 

Covered topics:

  • Access to the health care system
  • Functioning of the compulsory basic insurance
  • Selection criteria for one of the approximately 50 private health insurance companies
  • Differences between standard and economy plans of basic health insurances
  • Potential savings for basic health insurances
  • Payment-refund methods (tiers garant, tiers payant)
  • Functioning of the voluntary supplementary insurances and information about additional services
  • Choice of physicians
  • Choice of treatment providers
  • Organization and cost coverage of outpatient care
  • Organization and cost coverage of inpatient care
  • Sale and cost coverage of drugs
  • Organization and cost coverage of different therapies and services like nursing, transport and rescue
  • Financing of the health system trough taxes insurance premiums, retention fees, etc.
  • Financing of additional services
  • Expenses in the Swiss health care system
  • Financial trends since 1960
  • Income of practice assistants, nurses and physicians

 

Autor

Jan Ehrler, master degree in political science and economics
For many years project manager at the IDHEAP (Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration) in the field of policy evaluation.

 

Order

Shipping has been discontinued. However, a digital edition is available online free of charge.
=> digital version

  

General information and references

General information

Basic health insurance and health insurers

Plans of basic health insurance

Assessment of the treatment need, overprovision (only in German)

Physicians

Outpatient care

Drugs

Nursing

Rescue and transport (only in German)

Voluntary supplementary insurance

Wages in the health care sector (only in German)

Health care costs in Switzerland

Publishing House

Cognitographik Verlag

Im Dörfli 14b
8700 Küsnacht
Switzerland

kontakt@cognitograph.ch




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