2024-09-19 17:00:19
Medical analysis companies are on a war footing. Gathered as a coalition, representatives of liberal medical scientists, supported by their colleagues in the public sector, called this summer for a national strike, starting in September 20 days, in order to protest against the recent reductions in testing costs, decided by the health insurance in August.
From Friday, private analysis centers, which welcome an average of 500,000 patients daily, are called to close their doors for four days. No tests or examinations will be performed during this time, except for rapid analyzes for hospital patients. The mobilization of medical scientists has promised to be significantly delayed. “All major parties support the move. In many areas, all businesses will be closed »specified Jean-Claude Azoulay, President of the National Union of Medical Biologists.
In the views of health professionals: new price reductions, which are in force from September 11, for certain tests, such as the glycated hemoglobin test, often used in the diagnosis of diabetes, the price of which has been reduced by almost 53%, is 2.25 Euro. Scientists are protesting against these 120 euros of short, at the end of 2024, intended to have a measure in the Health Insurance expenditure on this article.
“The bottle neck is getting too big”
This decision results from a surge in procedures for biological analyzes in recent months. The acceleration of test requests, greater than expected by the paying agency, threatens to cover the budget envelope of 3.8 billion euros, planned for 2024 for the management of these tests, which amount has been aligned with employment, a year ago, as part of a three-year contract. Faced with this observation, the director general of the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), Thomas Fatôme, told scientists, in May, of the need to make price adjustments to receive this power in the scales.
A big fight for the profession, which feels it has been cheated when the contract expires in 2023: “At that time, we are sure that this increase in rates is expected between 2.5% and 2.7%. As a precaution, we have received price reductions at the beginning of 2024. Suddenly, we are told that this is not enough, because the increase in volumes will end up between 5.5% and 6.5%. Obviously, we’re sorry: the bottle is getting too big too fast. “deplres Mr. Azoulay.
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