Beneficiaries of complementary universal health cover (CMU-C) can take a breather: Health Minister Marison Touraine has declared that the doctors who would illegally impose excess fees will be sanctioned. Indeed, people whose health costs are covered at 100% (when their income is less than 716 euros per month) are supposed to pay no excess fees, according to the law, because they are not reimbursed. But according to health insurance files, 733 doctors, among the 30,000 practicing free fees in France, defraud their patients by imposing illegal additional charges on them. The world notably echoed the case of a practitioner from the Center-East who billed 82% of his patients under CMU an additional cost of around 46 euros.
Marisol Touraine called this practice unacceptable. “There will obviously be sanctions. Sanctions will intervene, and they will intervene all the more so as these behaviors cast shame on the whole of a profession which does not recognize itself and cannot recognize itself in such practices”, she said during a press conference. Medicare specifies that doctors suspected of practicing these illegal excesses are monitored, 200 of them having received a warning.
