Annual health care spending increases to CZK 580 billion

Health care spending in Czechia in 2021 increased by over 10 percent year-on-year to CZK 579.6 billion, according to data released by Czech Statistics Office on Wednesday.

The increase, which was mainly driven by the Covid-19 epidemic, was not as high as in the previous year, when it reached a record 19.5 percent.

Health insurance companies spent CZK 411.4 billion on healthcare in 2021, accounting for 71 percent of all healthcare spending in Czechia. The share of healthcare spending on GDP increased to 9.5 percent, a jump by around two percentage points on the previous years.