All the dental surgeon unions are calling for a demonstration on March 15 in Paris against the Health Bill. They are particularly opposed to the generalization of third-party payment.
All the organizations of dental surgeons (1) are calling for demonstrations on March 15 in Paris alongside other unions of liberal doctors. For several months, practitioners, students of oral medicine and interns in dentistry have in fact been mobilized against the threats of government bills Macron and Touraine (Health Law). Their fed-up is now reaching its climax.
Against the generalized third-party payment
In a press release published on Monday, they wrote, “the Touraine law known as the health law is a serious attack on our profession: it organizes the state’s control over the organization of health. “
Contacted by Why Doctor, Doctor Catherine Mojaïsky, president of the National Confederation of Dental Unions (CNSD), explains first of all that “like other practitioners, surgeons are opposed to generalized third-party payment. A demagogic measure, but above all dangerous for the structures of dental surgeons, ”she believes.
“We are completely dependent on the fees paid to us by patients. If the payment is not assured one can find oneself in difficult situations. However, the government assures us that there will be no problem, but all the experiences of third-party payments show us that there are errors and unpaid bills, ”insists this dentist.
In addition, the president of the CNSD explains that for some of their acts, the generalized third party payment would be, in addition, very complicated to set up.
Listen to Doctor Catherine Mojaïsky, president of the CNSD: ” Unlike care fully covered by social security, part of our activity is made up of free fees. For these treatments, the generalized third-party payment will be very complicated. “
The existence of liberal cabinets threatened
Another sticking point with the government, the cap on fees for patients who benefit from theSupplementary health assistance (ACS) on prostheses and orthodontics. “On this subject, dentists fear a second level of social tariffs after the CMU for which the tariffs have been blocked for 9 years”, specifies the president of the CNSD. “In areas where there are a lot of patients in financial difficulty, it will jeopardize the existence of all liberal cabinets. We will end up with desertified areas because they will not be economically viable. “
Teletransmission strike, closures of practices …
Finally, dentists fear a measure excluded from the Macron law but which still threatens them, one which means that the patient could choose his prosthetist according to the purchase price of the prosthesis. “If we no longer manage this collaboration, we risk ending up with a lot of quality problems. We would no longer be responsible for what we put in the mouths of our patients. “
In conclusion, the president of the CNSD confides that if the dentists are not heard, they plan other actions. It announces on the one hand: “a possible strike of teletransmission (no more vital card), but also possible days of closing of the practices before the big demonstration of the doctors on March 15th. “
(1) CNSD, FSDL, SFCD, SFSO, SNCO, SNIO, SNOHP, UJCD
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