Fictitious acts, overbilling… Doctors also defraud social security

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Some general practitioners would have misappropriated between 185 and 215 million euros in 2018-2019, out of 6 billion euros reimbursed, i.e. a damage rate of 3.1% to 3.5%. VAKSMANV/stock.adobe.com

This is only a minority of professionals. But the Medicare is determined to toughen the tone when prevention is not enough.

While social fraud has become a very political subject, Social Security is stepping up its efforts to track down abuse. In the field of health alone, the objective is to succeed in detecting ” 500 million euros of fraud in 2024 “, said Friday Thomas Fatôme, director general of Medicare.

Faced with pressure, Medicare has set about an assessment of abuses in the field of health. We are of course very far from the 30 billion euros of global fraud mentioned by the magistrate Charles Prats – amount disputed by the administrations (Pôle emploi, Urssaf, CAF, Health insurance). However, some revelations are unexpected.

On the Vitale card, a recurring subject of controversy, “there are no excess cards in the general schemehammered Thomas Fatôme.There are excess cards but none for the general plan“. While the right calls for the implementation of a biometric Vitale card, the government has requested a report from the Inspection…

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