Complementary health insurance will put their hands in their pockets! To offset the savings they made during the crisis, the executive will ask the organizations concerned to pay an "exceptional contribution" to Social Security by the end of the year. "This is not a tax, but a recovery of amounts that have not been disbursed" by the complementary, details a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, thus confirming information from Echoes .
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According to Bercy calculations, mutuals, private insurance or provident institutes have saved nearly 2.6 billion euros during confinement due to the waiver of certain care on the part of many insureds and the support 100% by Social Security for teleconsultations and Covid tests. A total that does not, however, take into account postponed care - and which will ultimately be provided and reimbursed - nor the drop in contributions caused by the economic crisis.
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After the presentation of this project to the main stakeholders, the complementary health "gave constructive feedback", specifies the ministry. But many players agree that the costing is "complex". Thus, a meeting in September around the ministers of Health, Olivier Véran, and Public Accounts, Olivier Dussopt, will be organized to define the amounts and terms of this contribution. Logically, the sum paid by complementary health - which could be spread over 2020 and 2021 - will be allocated to Medicare, weighed down by the crisis and whose deficit should be around 31 billion d at the end of the year. 'euros.