November 2, 2016.
From next year, consultations with a psychologist, for young people aged 6 to 21, can be reimbursed by Social Security. This project, which aims to provide better care for these patients, is causing concern among psychiatrists.
The consultations of psychologists soon to be reimbursed by Social Security?
To improve the care of young patients suffering from psychological disorders, psychologists could be called upon to contribute. A project that arouses a real wave of protest among psychiatrists, only doctors, and who believe that this reform would only ” sell off »Children’s health.
The 2017 Social Security Finance Bill (PLFSS) provides for this experience to be tested as of next year. It would imply that a young person, aged 6 to 21, and presenting disorders such as anorexia, behavioral disorders or suicidal desires, could be referred to a psychologist., and no longer only with a psychiatrist, whose consultations are today the only ones to be reimbursed by Social Security.
2,000 young people referred from next year to psychologists
For the deputy of Gironde Michèle Delaunay, who supports this reform, this experience aims to ” check if city psychologists have a utility that can justify coverage by health insurance », She explains in remarks taken up by The Parisian. If the experiment was conclusive, it would make the flow of patients more fluid. whose needs are not always met quickly enough, despite the presence of 13,000 psychiatrists in the region.
This reform, which would affect 2,000 young people next year, raises the concern of psychiatrists who put forward a danger to the health of children. ” This test has in its sights a probable generalization in the long term. However, psychologists have, at a minimum, only a master’s degree in psychology when psychiatrists have studied medicine for ten years. We are going to sell off the health of our children for financial reasons », Explains Doctor Éric Henry, president of the Syndicate of liberal doctors.
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