2024-09-09 03:40:59
The Health Insurance deficit will be “probably higher” than expected in 2024, estimated its director general in an interview published on Sunday by The Echoes. It defends “a new system of compensation for service delays” within the banking system.
“The deficit in the health sector will be higher than the 11.4 billion euros expected by the Social Security Information Commission in May” and “should be at a historical high,” Thomas Fatôme tell.
In his view, it is “a matter of serious concern which the next government and Parliament will have to address urgently”.
“New, more secure job retention certificates”
As the driver of the Health Insurance, Thomas Fatôme expressed the concern to “ensure that resources are used well and to react when more energy costs, such as those linked to compensation for work delays”, being “by more than billion a” euros in 2024 On this subject, the institute decided to “act on many fronts” until December.
Cnam (Health Insurance Fund) will “contact all policyholders who have more than 18 months of leave to (…) see if their stay is justified, see if work starts and maybe discuss the establishment of a care unit weakness. -time”, as well as “7,000 general practitioners who scheduled a special time off to discuss their actions and see if there is a way to better manage the situation”. “New, more secure job retention certificates” will also be deployed.
Beyond this, Thomas Fatôme notes that “we need to think about a new system of compensation for work delays that is more financially sustainable but better”, and that “The State, the social partners get back around table to this topic by collaborating, and Health Insurance will take its part”.
“Is it correct that today the worker is not properly protected because he does not have six months of seniority? Is it correct that the waiting days are often covered for workers in large companies but not in small ones? “, he asked.
On the review of the area of care for chronic diseases, recommended by a recent report, “the system of 100% area of care for chronic diseases is a pillar of Health Insurance, the heart of the reactor,” assured its director general.
But “we will strengthen our actions so that doctors make a clear distinction between treatment that must cover 100% for long-term illness and others,” he said.
Early diagnosis, new rights for paramedics, control of prescriptions, fight against fraud: Cnam submits 30 proposals to save 1.56 billion euros in 2025, in a report suggested by AFP in the middle of July.
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