The Health Insurance and the unions of liberal doctors signed the medical convention. According to Marisol Touraine, this is a “great step forward”.
Health insurance and representatives of three unions of liberal doctors (MG France, Le BLOC, and the FMF) out of five signed a medical agreement on Thursday. It will govern their relationship for the next five years.
A news that delights the Minister of Health. In a press release, Marisol Touraine, welcomes the turn of events. It must be said that the tariff negotiations lasted five months and were punctuated by many moments of tension. She nevertheless writes “that this agreement was made possible by an unprecedented commitment of means by the government to strengthen the attractiveness and recognition of the liberal exercise”.
1.3 billion more per year
The Minister goes on to say that this is “a great step forward for doctors and for patients”. Supporting figures, the ministry specifies that nearly 1.3 billion additional euros will be invested each year in liberal medicine by health insurance and complementary health insurance. This “unprecedented” effort, according to Marisol Touraine, encourages the development of local medicine (general medicine).
As a reminder, this text provides, among other things, for the revaluation of the reference consultation to 25 euros with the general practitioner from 1 May 2017. Different levels of consultations (25, 30, 46 and 60 euros) have also been defined to allow doctors to adapt the duration of their consultation to the needs of the patients according to the complexity of their medical situation (children, chronically ill, elderly people). They will come into force on November 1, 2017. So many advances that the signatory unions say they accepted in pain.
The unions want to influence the presidential election
As on the “structure package” (intended to modernize the cabinets), these formations hoped for more than the budgets allocated by the CNAMTS. In particular, the first union of liberal doctors, the CSMF, which did not sign the text. But the organization is already preparing the sequel.
Dyears a press release published at the end of the week, Dr. Jean-Paul Ortiz, president of the union, indicates that “on the basis of an innovative project, he will soon challenge the candidates for the presidency of the Republic to build the future and put health at the heart of the debate. Same for the Union of Liberal Doctors (SML) who also refrained from signing.
The second union of medical specialists also announces that it will present to the presidential candidates, during its annual congress on September 23 and 24, its proposals for “a new modern liberal health system which replaces the liberal doctor as an essential pillar of our medicine”. Sure, practitioners intend to weigh in on the next presidential election.
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