The “SI Vaccin Covid” file, launched on January 4 to ensure the traceability of the vaccination campaign in France, will it encourage doctors to give injections with all their hands?
This is suggested by publications shared several thousand times on Facebook and Twitter, which explain that "doctors will receive a premium of 5.40 euros" for any vaccination entered in this database.
"5.40 euros to create an apartheid of the unvaccinated who will become sub-citizens", indignant for example an Internet user, while another is angry against a "secret tariff" established by a "world of sold ".
These publications are based on a letter sent by the director of the National Health Insurance Fund, Thomas Fatôme, to doctors.
In it, he explains that "remuneration for the seizure in
Covid Vaccine
is set up with a flat rate paid a posteriori for each seizure made".
This, in the amount of 5.40 euros, is in addition to the 9.60 euros paid for the injection of the serum.
The letter specifies that this remuneration will be "carried out once a month around the 15th" for "the seizures relating to the previous month".
Everything is covered 100% by Health Insurance, so the patient has nothing to pay.
Contacted by Le Parisien, the Cnam confirms the authenticity of this letter "addressed to doctors" on "December 28 and 29, 2020".
This remuneration is not, however, "secret", as some Internet users suggest.
In a post published on December 29 on its website, the Health Insurance explains in detail the remuneration of doctors linked to the vaccination against Covid-19, clearly mentioning the implementation of this exceptional package.
Data subject to medical confidentiality
The purpose of this remuneration is to encourage practitioners to keep the “SI Vaccine Covid” file up to date so that the authorities can best follow the progress of the vaccination campaign, details the Cnam.
This could for example be used to simplify the reporting of adverse reactions.
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Concretely, practitioners will have to enter in this database information on the pre-vaccination consultation and on the injected vaccine.
This data concerns the patient (his name or his age for example), but also the batch number of the vaccine used or the dates of administration of the first and second doses.
Time-consuming “additional work” provided by doctors that it is “legitimate to promote” estimates the Cnam, while this vaccination campaign is “unprecedented”.
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In addition, the agency recalls that this data will be subject to medical confidentiality, as established by the decree authorizing the creation of the platform.
Only the caregiver who has performed the vaccination and Health Insurance will therefore have access to this information, which must be anonymized in the event of use by other members of the medical profession.
