Healthcare in Italy
Healthcare budget
In 2022, the Nation Health Service (SSN) total expenditure was Euro 169.9 billion (Euro 129.6 billion in public expenditure and Euro 40.0 billion in private expenditure). This represents 1.2% increase over prior year, which is lower than the GDP increase of 1.4%.
The average per-capita healthcare expenditure in Italy in 2022 was Euro 2,978: this goes from Euro 3,620 in the northern autonomous province of Bolzano to 1.860 in the southern region of Sicily.
76.3% of the total healthcare spending in Italy was funded by public sources, above the average of 74.2% in OECD countries. The reminder 23.7% is made of “out-of-pocket payments” (14%) and “voluntary health insurance” (9.7%).