Generic prescriptions should be increased by 40 to 60%, according to the director of Health Insurance. For a saving of 500 million euros.
The government is looking for solutions to find 2.9 billion euros in savings in the health sector. A lead has just been put forward by Frédéric Van Roekeghem, Director General of Health Insurance. Generic prescriptions should be increased from 40% to 60%. This would allow a saving of 500 million euros.
Already in 2013, generics had made it possible to save 1.6 billion euros, against 1.4 billion a year earlier.
Even if most doctors prescribe it, some continue to oppose it, by misusing the term Non-Substitute. And Cnamts warned them, they could be subject to financial sanctions.
Among the list of savings proposals proposed in a report that has just been made public is also the improvement of doctors’ prescriptions, with the objective of saving 700 million euros. “A small effort by doctors to prescribe the drug better, fewer antibiotics, more generics when possible, would allow us to free up room for maneuver without disbursing patients and introducing innovations,” he added. declared Frédéric Van Roekeghem at the microphone of RTL.
“On antibiotics, we made great progress in France in the 2000s, but we still prescribe 30% more antibiotics than Spain, 40% more than Germany,” he explained. . The second thing is that we use generic drugs much less than other countries, and there is still work to be done ”. In this area, Germany and the United Kingdom are indeed far ahead of us.
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