Negotiations concerning the tariffs practiced by the profession have failed. Consequently, the first union of dentists, the FSDL and the Association of student dental surgeons (UNECD) called on professionals and students to demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the Health Insurance in Paris.
For 4 months, the three dental unions (FSDL, CNSD and the Dental Union) have been negotiating new rates for their profession. These price changes were to upgrade a certain number of basic procedures (scaling, cavities) up to €806 million, in return for a cap on acts related to prostheses(crowns..), more profitable for professionals. These negotiations were to establish the agreement which governs the tariff relations of the 37,000 liberal dental surgeons with Social Security and complementary health insurance.
Professionals and students are indignant at the approach of the Minister of Health
But the unions of dentists have mainly rejected this week the proposals of the Health Insurance. The second union of dentists, the CNSD, declared to have refused to 99.8% the proposals of the Medicare concerning the tariffs of their profession. “The score of 99.8% is significant of the revolt of the profession”, declared the president of the CNSD, Catherine Mojaïsky. “On the general feeling, the minister’s approach obviously contributed to creating a situation of revolt and a feeling of injustice, in a political game where our fate would be the least of her worries. The capping solution as the only way to improve access to care is totally dogmatic and will not solve anything, except to aggravate the existing deviations, created by years of disengagement in oral health”, declared the CNSD in a statement.
An arbitration settlement and tough actions
Failure of transactions requires arbitration. Within a month, the arbitrator will have to make new proposals to the Minister of Health Marisol Touraine. But Catherine Mojaïsky declared that “the CNSD intends to prevent this procedure by initiating a “request for interim suspension by QPC (priority question of constitutionality)”. In the daily Le Parisien, Patrick Solera, president of the FSDL, announced: “If the The referee offers us the same things, we will continue to take tough action”, referring to “teletransmission shutdowns” and “strikes in each region each week on certain treatments”.
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