Methodology & sources

On comparability: tariffs are not all set on the same basis. Where a market pays via a day-case DRG (e.g. Denmark, Ireland, UK for colonoscopy/cataract; Danish DAGS imaging), the figure is a full average-cost episode price incl. facility and overheads; fee-for-service markets show a professional/technical fee only. The tariff type is shown on every bar’s hover. Read levels with that in mind; the ranking within a like basis is the signal.

Every cell is a published regulated tariff for one standard case, extracted from the national fee schedule, DRG catalogue or payment scheme in force (2025/26 editions), verified against the source document, and carrying its national code. Nothing is estimated.

What these figures are — and are not

• They are provider-side prices: the amount an institution receives for delivering one unit of care under the statutory system. They are not what a patient pays. An NHS patient pays nothing for a £200 dialysis session; £200 is what the commissioner pays the unit.
• How much of that figure comes from public funds varies by system, which is why the board does not describe itself as what the public payer pays. Under DRG, ABF and national-tariff systems the state generally funds the whole amount. Under fee-for-service systems the published figure is the full regulated fee for the act, of which the statutory insurer reimburses a share and the patient covers the rest — France’s €30 GP consultation is the total price of the visit, of which Assurance Maladie meets roughly 70%, with the co-payment carved out of that same €30 rather than added to it. The number shown is the provider’s receipt either way; the public/private split behind it is a national policy variable, not a price difference.

Comparability rules

• Cells are excluded — left visibly blank — where a tariff is not like-for-like: point-scale systems without a published monetary conversion (PL, CZ imaging, CH, AT hospital care), partial-refund schemes rather than prices (FI), stale valuations, screening bundles, tariffs excluding the implant, and capitation systems for the GP line (most of Europe pays GPs per head, not per visit — itself a structural finding).
• Tariff types are mixed by necessity — fee-for-service lines, DRG case rates, day-case rates — and labelled per cell. A DRG case price bundles more than a fee line; hover notes flag known composition caveats (e.g. Belgium's dialysis forfait covers the facility component only; NHS imaging tariffs are anatomy-agnostic).
• France: GP consultation and colonoscopy from official Assurance Maladie tariffs. CT and MRI are composed prices — CCAM professional act plus the machine forfait technique at full rate (UNCAM decision of 14 Oct 2025, JORF n°0246 of 18 Oct 2025, Article 6: scanner €71.76, IRM 1.5 T Province €119.32, both amortised tier), per the two-part billing structure of the French system; reduced degressive forfait rates apply above activity thresholds. Dialysis is the public-sector (ex-DG) hospital tariff GHS 9605 for GHM 28Z04Z Hémodialyse, en séances — all-in, because public-hospital nephrologists are salaried and no CCAM act is added. The private (ex-OQN) comparator is materially lower on the facility side (€281.35 plus the CCAM physician act) and is not shown; patient transport, typically three times a week, is reimbursed separately and sits outside every dialysis figure on this board. France's per-session dialysis billing is legislated to become a weekly package from 1 Jan 2027.

Currency & price level

• Non-euro tariffs converted at ECB 2025 annual-average reference rates. The PPP toggle deflates by Eurostat's GDP price-level index (EU27=100, 2024) — showing what the tariff buys at each market's price level rather than at the exchange rate.

Sources

• National schedules in force: FR CCAM & NGAP, UNCAM decision 14 Oct 2025 (imaging forfaits techniques) and ATIH tariff campaign 2026 (annex to the arrêté of 12 Jan 2026, GHS prices) · BE INAMI/RIZIV · NL NZa · DK DRG-takster & PLO · NO ISF & Normaltariffen · SE nationella taxan & TLV · IE ABF price lists & PCRS · GB NHS Payment Scheme 2026/27 · DE EBM & GKV dialysis Kostenpauschalen · AT ÖGK Honorarordnung · ES regional precios públicos (Andalucía, Catalunya) · PT ACSS/ANADIAL · IT DM tariffe nazionali & regional nomenclators · GR EKPY · HR HZZO DTP/DTS · SI ZZZS cenik · CZ úhradová vyhláška · RO CNAS norms · LT VLK · LV NVD manipulāciju saraksts · EE Tervisekassa price list.