The human resources of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris sent a letter to the striking doctors threatening them with sanctions if they continue not to code the data of the medical procedures they perform.
As revealed European 1 this Friday, the human resources department of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris sent a letter to the personnel taking part in the “coding strike” threatening them with disciplinary sanctions.
Indeed, since last October, the striking doctors no longer enter the data of the medical acts performed, which prevents the Health Insurance from reimbursing the hospitals. According to The echoesthe AP-HP reportedly claimed to have lost between 270 and 300 million in profits in the last quarter of 2019.
Sanctions and deduction from wages
“The administration, which no longer seems to have any hold on the doctors, is attacking the level below, that is to say the management, so as to split the services, so that some dissociate themselves” , declares to Europe 1 Mickaël Peyromaure, head of the urology department at Cochin hospital in Paris, convinced that the management wants to put pressure on the strikers.
In this letter, the AP-HP affirms that compliance with “past instructions” constitutes “an obligation”: “Any unjustified breach of the obligation of hierarchical obedience exposes the agent to a disciplinary sanction, or even to detention on compensation for lack of service rendered.”
The AP-HP threatens the teams with disciplinary sanctions but also with deduction from wages. “Our nurses are already very poorly paid and we are going to withhold wages?, an indignant doctor told the Figaro on condition of anonymity. These methods will permanently sever the link between the hospital workers and the hospital administration.”
Unsatisfactory measures
At the end of November, after eight months of crisis in public hospitals, Agnès Buzyn confirmed that the latter would immediately recover 415 million euros set aside in the Health Insurance budget this year. Edouard Philippe meanwhile announced a recovery of the date spread over three years and bonuses for staff.
Despite everything, health professionals are not convinced by this “emergency plan”. “[Ces mesures] come down to less than 300 million additional euros for 2020, while the general opinion is that 1.3 billion euros are missing to meet the increase in charges alone”, estimated 660 doctors in the JDD last December.
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