The clinics had already announced last week that they would participate alongside doctors in the major national event scheduled for the 15th in Paris. After yesterday’s announcement by the Ministry of Health of new hospital rates for 2015, there is no doubt that private hospitalization professionals will be even more motivated to hit the streets of Paris this Sunday.
Not only were they communicated 10 days late, but in addition, the prices of some 2,300 acts performed in private establishments and reimbursed by Health Insurance are down 2.5% for the year 2015. Information revealed on Tuesday evening by The echoes, confirmed since by the Ministry of Health, which reinforces the fears expressed in recent days by the Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP).
Its president, Lamine Gharbi, was indeed anticipating a new tariff campaign which would cancel the entire tax credit for competitiveness and employment (125 million) and the reductions in charges (83 million) linked to the Responsibility Pact. What confirm today The echoes “Clinics must in fact return, in the form of lower prices, the advantages recently granted to private companies, so as not to be advantaged compared to hospitals. »
The 2.5% drop would indeed have been calculated with a view to fairness between private and public hospitals. Because in the latter too, the prices for acts reimbursed by Health Insurance are revised downwards, minus 1% compared to 2014. Last year, no reduction was recorded in the public while the prices for private clinics fell by 0.24%.
Asked by The echoesFrédéric Valletoux, President of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), believes that “it is an extra effort but it makes sense as we have to save money”… He concedes all the same that “there is nothing to jump for joy” .
Equity or not, representatives of private hospitals are furious. In the ranks of the FHP, report The echoessome refer to ” a deliberate will» to hit the clinics, “with the approach of the elections”. The Federation has announced that it wants to convene an executive crisis committee this Wednesday and is already thinking of “retaliatory measures”. A freeze on the creation of the 2,700 jobs planned under the Responsibility Pact could be the first response from the clinics to the Ministry of Health.
