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Up to 120 patients per day ... A general practitioner ordered to reimburse 600,000 euros to Social Security

2021-09-02T19:58:10.527Z


Dr Jean-Marc Blanchon was also sentenced to two years in prison and suspended from practice for one year.


He was accused of having artificially inflated the number of his consultations.

The Orléans criminal court sentenced Thursday to two years in prison and a one-year ban on practicing a general practitioner, prosecuted for fraud.

He claimed to receive up to 120, or even 190 patients per day, we learned from a source close to the file.

This doctor, Dr Jean-Marc Blanchon, was sentenced to two years in prison, a one-year ban on practice as well as the return of real estate, bank accounts and the confiscation of vehicles and his plane, the source said.

According to the Central Republic, he will also have to reimburse nearly 600,000 euros to the Primary Health Insurance Fund and pay a fine of 50,000 euros to the Public Treasury.

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His trial was held in June.

The prosecution had requested five years in prison, three of which were suspended, and five years of prohibition to exercise.

The doctor was implicated after a complaint from the CPAM for "suspected false declaration" in 2019. Claiming his innocence, Dr. Blanchon was taken into police custody on July 4.

He said he was "victim of the medical desert"

Claiming to be a victim of the medical desert, the doctor, interviewed by AFP, said in 2019 that "social security tolerates a general practitioner seeing up to 72 people per day".

He prided himself on being “the only doctor to take everyone, without an appointment.

People are obviously flocking.

Sometimes I see up to 120 patients a day, ”he said, working between 12 and 15 hours a day.

The director of the Loiret CPAM, for his part, had expressed “serious doubts about certain acts that we cannot understand”.

Dr Blanchon has ten days to appeal.

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In the event of an appeal, the prohibition to exercise will not apply immediately. Contacted by France Bleu Orléans, Maître Manuel Abitbol, ​​one of Doctor Blanchon's lawyers, explains that he will not make any comments during this period.

Source: leparis

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