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30 euros at the general practitioner, long consultation, emergencies… What will change in the prices at the doctor

2024-03-14T17:55:29.571Z

Highlights: Social Security is ready to increase certain doctors' prices but in return asks them for a drastic reduction in their medication prescriptions, examinations and work stoppages. The subject was at the heart of a new negotiating session lasting more than four hours on Thursday between the six doctors' unions and Medicare. Each general practitioner generates 700,000 euros per year in expenses on medicines,. examinations and sick leave. This is a sine qua non condition that public authorities impose on any increase in prices, demanded for more than a year by professionals.


DECRYPTION - Social Security is ready to increase certain doctors' prices but in return asks them for a drastic reduction in their medication prescriptions, examinations and work stoppages.


If you're used to leaving the doctor's office with a prescription as long as your arm, this practice should change in the coming months.

Faced with soaring health costs, Social Security is requiring doctors to reduce their prescriptions.

Each general practitioner generates 700,000 euros per year in expenses on medicines, examinations and sick leave.

The subject was at the heart of the new negotiating session lasting more than four hours on Thursday between the six doctors' unions and Medicare.

This is a sine qua non condition that public authorities impose on any increase in prices, demanded for more than a year by professionals to compensate for inflation.

While the doctors left the last session on February 8 judging that the account was not there, Thomas Fatôme, director of Health Insurance claimed to have “

revisited his copy

 ”.

But “

faced with the significant revaluations that we are putting on the table, we want quantitative objectives…

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Source: lefigaro

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