Voted in mid-April in the National Assembly, the generalization of third-party payment should be effective by 2017. This flagship measure of the Health Bill carried by Marisol Touraine was then strongly contested by doctors for fear of administrative overload.
In an attempt to simplify the generalization of third-party payment, the three federations of complementary health launched a “joint association” on Monday.
The Mutualité Française, the Technical Center for Provident Institutions (Ctip) and the French Federation of Insurance Companies (FFSA) announced the creation of this association last February, to “steer their technical system of third-party payment”, it that is to say the waiver of advance fees for the patient. This association “will organize the cooperation between the different actors”, by working “on the coherence” of the tools, specify the different Federations in a press release.
The system implemented “will be tested from the end of 2015”, in an attempt to meet the requirements of healthcare professionals. Adjustments can then be made “to take their expectations into account”.
In mid-June, the association’s board of directors, made up of a representative from each federation, will elect a president and a vice-president, the statement said.
“The goal is obviously to […] allow a real simplification of the implementation of third-party payment”, assured the president of the French Mutuality Etienne Caniard at the microphone of AFP. He also assured that he wanted to “exempt professionals from any new administrative burden. »
The association plans to set up an online rights opening server, thanks to which healthcare professionals will be able to check that their patients are indeed benefiting from complementary insurance, which ensures their eligibility for third-party payment.
A report listing the possible technical solutions for implementing generalized third-party payment must be submitted to the government on October 31.
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