Out of every €100 spent on health care in 2018, €37 was spent in hospitals and €20 in out-patient health care providers, mainly GPs and dentists. A further €18 was spent in long-term residential facilities, such as nursing homes and residential disability services, and €13 in retailers of medical goods (mainly pharmacies), (see Figure 3.1).
Health expenditure rose by 19% between 2014 and 2018. Spending in hospitals had the highest increase of 25% over this time period, compared with rises of 14% in long-term residential facilities and 12% for retailers of medical goods, (see Figure 2.2).
Health care providers include all the organisations and individuals who deliver health care goods and services as their primary activity. Also included are those who deliver health care as one of a number of activities, see the Background Notes for more details.
| Current Health Care Expenditure By Provider (% Current Health Care Expenditure) | |
| Hospitals | 37.2 |
| Ambulatory Health Care Provider | 19.9 |
| Long-Term Residential Facilities | 17.7 |
| Retailer of Medical Goods | 13.2 |
| Ancillary Health Care Provider | 1.4 |
| Other Providers | 10.7 |
| Current Health Care Expenditure By Provider (% Change between 2014 to 2018) | |
| Hospitals | 25.2944620043398 |
| Ambulatory Health Care Provider | 20.8174201031519 |
| Long-Term Residential Facilities | 13.6944416621467 |
| Retailers of Medical Goods | 12.1720149708464 |
| Anillary Health Care Provider | 16.5514105909091 |
| Other Providers | 14.4722913932885 |
Figure 3.3 below provides a breakdown of health care expenditure by health care provider and financing source for 2018. As noted earlier in this publication, 74% of health care expenditure is funded by Government in 2018, 14% by health insurance and the remaining 12% by household out-of-pocket payments - this split in total spending is on the bottom bar of the graph and can be used to highlight which providers diverge from this pattern.
Differences from the overall pattern were observed in the expenditure on providers of healthcare system administration and financing, 64% of which was provided by private health insurance companies. Only 2% of hospital provided care was paid directly by households, however direct payments by households accounted for 25% of the expenditure in pharmacies and retailers of medical goods. Voluntary payment schemes only accounted for a small percentage (4%) of payments to long-term residential care facilities.
| HF.1 - Government and Compulsory | HF.2 - Voluntary Health Care Payment Schemes | HF.3 - Household Out-of-Pocket Payments | |
| Hospitals | 72.4306348060102 | 25.8124502997562 | 1.75691489423361 |
| Long-Term Residential Facilities | 79.2494165890375 | 3.55183828879291 | 17.1987451221696 |
| Ambulatory Health Care Provider | 71.3807070120395 | 5.34155369270217 | 23.2777392952583 |
| Ancillary Health Care Provider | 71.522355842396 | 13.3003238925117 | 15.1773202650923 |
| Retailer of Medical Goods | 75.2334427245599 | 0 | 24.7665572754401 |
| Providers of Preventative Care | 89.8346952683572 | 10.1653047316428 | 0 |
| Providers of Health Care Administration and Financing | 36.1102352852586 | 63.8897647147414 | 0 |
| Rest of the Economy | 85.0366095286769 | 9.80550563814379 | 5.15788483317927 |
| Rest of the World | 74.2140740899596 | 25.7859259100404 | 0 |
| Provider n.e.c. | 96.9811795559932 | 3.01882044400684 | 0 |
| All Health Care Providers | 73.891221258245 | 14.0254518464028 | 12.0833268953522 |
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