The prices for consultations with general practitioners and certain specialists increased this Sunday, December 22, 2024.
- The first measures provided for by the 2024-2029 medical agreement, signed between Health Insurance and private doctors in June, took effect on December 22.
- The consultation with the general practitioner thus increases from €26.50 to €30.
- Certain specialties saw their prices increase on December 22. And, a second revaluation is also planned for July 2025.
The increase in prices for general practitioners and several specialties, provided for by the agreement signed last June by Health Insurance and the unions of private doctors, took effect this Sunday, December 22. These increases were initiated to take into account inflation and make the activity of doctors in city practices “more attractive”.
Gynecologist, pediatrician, psychologist: a two-stage price increase
Since this Sunday, a consultation with a general practitioner who practices in sector 1 (at agreed rates) costs 30 euros and an appointment with a specialist at the request of a general practitioner 60 euros. This represents increases of €3.50.
The prices of treating doctors are not the only ones to be increased. Other specialties saw their fees increase on December 22. For example, gynecologists and geriatricians can now request €37 (instead of €33.50 and €31.50 respectively).
At the pediatrician, €39 is now charged for children under two years old, €35 for those between two and six years old and €31.50 for those over six years old.
Appointments with the psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist or neurologist have increased to 55 euros. Child psychiatry consultations which now concern young people up to 25 years old (and no longer up to 16 years old) cost €67.
But be careful, a second increase in prices is planned for 1er July 2025 for several specialties: pediatrics, medical gynecology, geriatrics, psychiatry, neurology, endocrinology, dermatology, physical medicine and rehabilitation.
The increase in fees covered by social security and complementary insurance
These increases in doctors’ prices should not weigh on the wallets of the vast majority of patients. They are supported up to 70% by Health Insurance and 30% by complementary insurance.
Health Insurance specifies that these measures make it possible to improve “the remuneration of these medical specialties, whose income is among the lowest and has stagnated for several years”. In return for the increases, doctors have committed to 10 key indicators (reducing the rate of patients with long-term illnesses without a treating doctor to 2%, increasing their patient base by 2% per year, etc.) and 15 priority action programs (l antibiotic resistance, the proper use of analgesics, proton pump inhibitors or even the limitation of polypharmacy…).
“This agreement is essential to preserve the quality of the urban health system as we know it today and prepare it for the challenges of tomorrow. The concrete measures which are deployed from December 22 aim to offer patients better access to their doctor, care more adapted to their needs, while allowing doctors to concentrate on their main mission: providing care. These measures are not simply technical or administrative: they will have a direct impact on patient monitoring and care. on the daily life of doctors”indicates Thomas Fatôme, general director of Health Insurance, in a press release.
