The decision is recorded. The medical consultation will cost patients 25 euros. 5 months of negotiations were necessary between the Health Insurance and the doctors’ unions to conclude this agreement.
If at the end of July, MG France, the first union of general practitioners, and the BLOC, the representative body of surgeons had declared that the text had been signed, a third signatory was missing to validate the agreement. It is Sunday, August 21, that the Federation of Doctors of France (FMF), the organization more resistant to vote this text voted for.
Indeed, according to the statement, Sunday to AFP by Jean-Paul Hamon, president of the Federation of Doctors of France (FMF), “52.95% of members of the FMF (Federation of Doctors of France) voted for the signature of the new agreement “.
If Nicolas Revel, Director General of the National Health Insurance Fund, is delighted with this decision, Jean-Paul Hamon affirms that “there was nothing to celebrate, nevertheless welcoming the choice of its members. . All is not satisfactory, but we must still realize that the government has put 900 million euros on the table for liberal doctors. A left in need of re-election is necessarily more generous than a newly elected right ”.
Several price changes for medical consultations
Since 2011, seeing a doctor is worth 23 euros. On May 1, 2017, it will cost you 25 euros. But, social security reimbursements will allow patients not to lose in the exchange. For this revaluation, health insurance will put out of its pocket 569 million euros per year.
On this date, general practitioners will bill for the care of children from 0 to 6 years old 30 euros. “The consultation of young children is very dense. You have to check various points: height, weight, growth curve, vaccinations … You have to answer many questions from parents, ”explains La Croix daily, Dr. François Wilthien, vice-president of MG-France .
Likewise, complex consultations (concerning Sexually Transmitted Infections, childhood obesity), may cost 46 euros and the very complex 55 euros (cancer or infection by HIV-AIDS).
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