Will psychotherapies soon be reimbursed by health insurance? This is a recommendation from the last report of the Court of Auditors. This support already exists on an experimental basis in four departments.
- The Court of Auditors recommends the coverage of psychotherapies by Health Insurance
- Four departments are already the subject of an experiment in this direction
- This recommendation from the Court of Auditors comes as the health crisis is deteriorating the mental health of the French
This is timely news. While the health crisis is having more and more negative consequences on the morale and mental health of the French people, The Court of Auditors, in its report published on February 16, pleads for the reimbursement, still experimental, of psychotherapy sessions to be “generalized as soon as possible”. This support has in fact existed for two years and as part of an experiment in the four departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Garonne, Landes and Morbihan.
It is within the framework of an overall examination of the distribution and allocation of resources between the different types of patients concerned by mental health and psychiatric care that the Court puts forward this proposal. “The different types of disorders, mild, moderate or severe, should in principle correspond to distinct levels of care in the primary care system (treating doctors and psychologists) and in the second line system (psychiatry) whose care must remain specialized”, underline the authors of the report. They thus recommend to “reorient the primary care system on psychological care which would be based, if necessary, on psychiatry”.
“Saturated” medico-psychological centers
Concretely, they therefore recommend extending to the whole of the territory the experimentation undertaken in the four departments already concerned. This is based on reimbursement by Health Insurance of psychotherapies carried out by independent psychologists when this care is prescribed by the attending physicians. At the same time as this measure, the Court of Auditors suggests better filtering of access to medico-psychological centers, “often saturated” she underlines, thanks to an orientation towards a front-line professional.
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