The Confederation of Dental Unions calls on dentists not to keep their guard on Sunday, and to close their practices on Monday. She protested in particular against the freezing of their rates by the Health Insurance.
Dentists are angry! The National Confederation of Dental Unions (CNSD) on Thursday launched a strike slogan for surgeons’ offices-dentists liberals. The CNSD calls for surgeons-dentists Liberals to suspend their participation in the guards as of Sunday February 2, and to block the teletransmission of care sheets from Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 February. Finally, she also calls on these health professionals to close their practice on Monday, February 3. why actor explains the reasons why this Confederation, which represents a third of the profession, grinds its teeth.
Freezing of prices sometimes for 25 years
These doctors are protesting in particular against the freezing of their rates by Health Insurance. In a press note, the CNSD recalls that the implementation of the common classification of dental medical acts (CCAM) accompanied by revaluations of conservative care from June 2014 (between 54 to 57 million euros in a full year) are insufficient progress. “Amendment n ° 3 in no way resolves the oral problem, namely the remainder of the charge of patients, which has become an obstacle to access to care and the undervaluation of preventive acts, conservative and surgical care” , believes the union.
In addition, the CNSD considers that “prosthetic and orthodontic care has become unbearable for the practitioners who provide them, given the blocking of their revaluation since 1988.” In addition, “it argues that operating costs represent 65% of cabinet revenues ”, and believes that“ the free fees set for prostheses cannot indefinitely compensate for the absence of revaluation of acts at opposable rates. “
A decree should set at 75 euros the half day of care
Thus, in order to alert the general public to the need for restructuring of the dental sector, the Confederation is organizing an awareness and poster campaign in dental offices, in particular on the blocking of the reimbursement bases for certain treatments “for 25 years. years ”, as with dental crowns. The CNSD is also launching a call to sign a petition, and will organize actions of “sidewalk tags” with the mention “for 25 years the Social Security has been pouring your dental reimbursements. ”
Finally, the CNSD is calling for the publication of a decree which should make it possible to harmonize the devices, but also to better remunerate the guards, up to 75 euros per half-day, and a specific increase in the event of intervention.
“This decree is being drafted,” assured the director of Health Insurance on Thursday, Frédéric van Roekeghem. “Some will go on strike on Sunday, others will close their practice on Monday, while avoiding penalizing their patients, especially in under-resourced areas,” CNSD Secretary General Thierry Soulié told AFP . Indeed, like doctors, dentists are authorized to strike. But the prefects have the power to assign them to ensure continuity of care.
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