In a petition, GPs in Pau are asking for a moratorium to stop the financial penalties suffered by patients who cannot find a treating doctor.
Faced with the growing difficulties encountered by the population in accessing a family doctor, the association of general practitioners in the Pau-Sud sector has decided to take action. “Health concerns us all, let’s mobilize,” she chants.
The practitioners’ organization therefore launched a few days ago a petition on change.org intended for the Minister of Health, but also for the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and the CPAM.
The reform of the attending physician criticized
These professionals mention the many problems caused by the “treating doctor” reform implemented in 2006. as a general practitioner finds itself bogged down in administrative procedures to the detriment of its true function, which is to listen to and care for patients”.
Faced with this increase in administrative tasks, young doctors in training with the general practitioner would find the function too restrictive from an administrative point of view and, in fact, turn to other specialties. “This device accentuates the shortage of doctors already undermined by a numerus clausus in the too restrictive competition”, let go of the petitioners.
Financially penalized patients
And since these doctors are overworked, they no longer take on new patients. Result, more and more people today are penalized because they cannot find a general practitioner agreeing to be their doctor.
At the origin of the petition, Dr. Michel Chevalier, general practitioner in Ousse, explains: “Indeed, if the latter does not take a general practitioner, he is then suspected of practicing medical nomadism, and is therefore sanctioned by bad refund,” he wrote.
Concretely, this gives barely 5.90 euros reimbursed by the CPAM for a general medical consultation. And 16.90 euros only reimbursed by the CPAM on a direct specialist access consultation of 33 euros (ophthalmology or gynecology).
Nearly 150 people have already signed the text on the change.org website or on posters in waiting rooms, says the Doctor’s Daily. In the short term, the doctors of Pau are asking for a moratorium to stop the financial penalties suffered by patients who cannot find a treating doctor.
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