That’s it, it’s been confirmed: since Wednesday, January 1, 2020, 1,163 homeopathic remedies that were so far reimbursed at 30% no longer benefit from more than 15% coverage by Social Security.
Decided during the month of July 2019, this delisting (controversial!) Is in accordance with the opinion of the High Authority of Health (HAS) which estimated “insufficient“the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies to justify their support by the State – thus, in 2018, granules, ointments … cost around 126.8 million euros.
From 2021, homeopathy will be completely delisted
And it will not stop there: from January 1, 2021, homeopathic remedies will cease to be reimbursed by Social Security. “I wanted to organize a transition period, to give myself time for teaching and support patients“said Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn during the summer of 2019.
As for the laboratories producing these homeopathic remedies, however, the case is not over: the giants of the sector Boiron and Rocal have thus lodged an appeal with the Council of State to contest the delisting – this was confirmed on the 10th. December 2019.
In addition, in mid-December 2019, around ten members of the National Union of Homeopathic Doctors (SNMHF) appeared before the Council of the Order of Physicians after the filing of 60 complaints. And on January 24, it will be the turn of professionals from the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur region to present themselves there. In short, business to follow …
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