Monday, October 7, 2019
To fight against missed appointments, doctors could bill for their consultations. To this end, a petition is launched and plans to amend an article of law.
28 million consultations are not honored each year
Do you find that the delays to make a medical appointment are very long and that you spend too much time in the waiting room? Well imagine that doctors also have their complaints! They deplore, for example, all these patients who do not show up for an appointment even though they have not bothered to cancel it.
Each year, these are 28 million views that are not honored, that is ” 40 minutes lost per day per doctor »Say our colleagues from Capital. An unacceptable figure, all the more so as hospital emergencies are saturated and suffer from an increase in admissions with 21,000 visits per year.
Change the law to bill for unfulfilled consultations
For physicians, this type of behavior disrespects them and reveals a consumerist attitude on the part of patients. A situation which leads them to a fed up and pushed the union of the French Union for a Free Medicine to start a petition. It is addressed to politicians and calls for the possibility of billing for consultations that are not honored.
To do this, it would be necessary modify article R.4127-53 of the Public Health Code which indicates that the fees can only be claimed on the occasion of acts actually carried out. The petition expects to collect 1,500 signatures. A figure soon to be reached since, to this day, 1,434 practitioners signed the petition.
Perrine Deurot-Bien
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