COVID-19 Costs and National Financing System: Evidence from Italy

The study promotes a reflection on the pandemic impact and its effects on the financing system, on expenses trends, and on economic data incurred by Italian public healthcare organisations in the year of the pandemic outbreak. Focusing on national data, with a specific focus on data from two Italian regions significantly stressed by the pandemic, the study shows that the Italian healthcare financing system was able to cover those costs incurred by the pandemic. The resources allocated to healthcare organisations were sufficient to cope with the structural modification of the services provided and the changes in national health mobility data.