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Doctors are dissatisfied with Lauterbach's planned corona test regulation - associations express themselves clearly

2022-06-28T15:39:42.585Z


Doctors are dissatisfied with Lauterbach's planned corona test regulation - associations express themselves clearly Created: 06/28/2022, 17:25 By: Anna Lorenz Self-participation in the citizen test - the medical associations apparently see several points of criticism in Lauterbach's planned new corona regulation and warn of serious consequences. Berlin – The ordinance with which Karl Lauterbac


Doctors are dissatisfied with Lauterbach's planned corona test regulation - associations express themselves clearly

Created: 06/28/2022, 17:25

By: Anna Lorenz

Self-participation in the citizen test - the medical associations apparently see several points of criticism in Lauterbach's planned new corona regulation and warn of serious consequences.

Berlin – The ordinance with which Karl Lauterbach (SPD) now wants to change the corona regulations is encountering opposition from the medical associations.

Both the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), the Federal Medical Association (BÄK) and the German General Practitioners Association, as well as the Professional Association of German Laboratory Doctors (BDL), criticize

the project in several respects , according to the

Ärzteblatt .

The fact that the citizen tests are sometimes subject to a fee is seen as particularly problematic.

Corona Ordinance: KVB sees “apparent” new regulations as a gateway for further cases of fraud

Unrealistic, impractical, difficult to verify - this is the bottom line of the KVB's assessment of the prescription plans with regard to Corona.

The regulations are formulated imprecisely, both with regard to the issuing of certificates for contraindications regarding vaccination and the citizen tests.

Who is entitled to a free test and when is just as unclear as the question of who has to bear the cost price of three euros in case of doubt.

"These regulations", which would go hand in hand with a "considerable, bureaucratic additional burden" in terms of monitoring compliance, "require an apparent accuracy that further increases the system's susceptibility to fraud, which actually exists in practice." The KVB fears that test stations will continue to would often bill the state for the original seven euros, even if the person tested had paid the deductible of three euros.

"Given the massive cases of fraud, stopping the citizen tests would have been logical," criticized the association.

Corona Ordinance: The German Medical Association fears far-reaching consequences for test providers

The BÄK sees the risk that the range of test centers will fall drastically in the planned ordinance because of the intended self-insurance of the test persons.

"In rural areas in particular, this will lead to an increase in the demand for citizen tests in medical practices," the BÄK fears an increase in the burden on medical practices and the like.

Overall, the new concept is "unclear in many passages.[...]" and needs to be specified.

The BÄK, which generally calls for the test management to be placed entirely in the hands of medical professionals, could therefore not agree to the planned “adaptation of the coronavirus test regulation with regard to the testing of asymptomatic people [...] of the present version without cause.”

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German General Practitioners' Association rails against the government: "No interest" in the opinion of the associations

The German Association of General Practitioners finds particularly sharp words for the “new test regulation that has now been presented”, which, according to Federal Chairman Ulrich Weigeldt, is “above all a bureaucracy monster with sometimes hair-raising regulations that are simply not thought through to the end”.

In particular, checking the right to free citizen tests is not the task of the physicians.

“The idea that the practices would have their patients’ admission tickets or something similar be presented as proof is absurd.

Medical practices are not regulatory agencies.”

According to Weigeldt, the deficit of the planned regulations is a simple consequence of the lack of interest in the opinion of the relevant associations.

According to the chairman, the German Association of General Practitioners was only given four hours to assess the regulation.

"You can't make it much clearer that, despite assertions to the contrary, you have no interest in the assessment of those affected."

BDL sees new Corona regulation as a missed opportunity: "The problem persists"

According to the BDL, the new regulation should have ended “ineffective citizen tests of symptom-free people”.

The now intended, “small-scale, detailed reorganization of the citizen tests ignores the reality of the test sites.

Quality problems are not solved," says the association, whose chairman Andreas Bobrowski demands that the state must "put coronavirus diagnostics back completely into the hands of doctors, where they belong."

The BDL sees the citizen tests as not very effective anyway.

"The problem also remains that rapid antigen tests are not suitable for infection statistics," complains the BDL, who sees the need to establish so-called multiplex PCR tests.

(askl)

Source: merkur

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