The new scheduled price for October for the transport of patients, which has fed the taxi mobilization since Monday, will be profitable for a “vast majority” of these professionals, assures the health insurance pattern.
“We develop the rate model to generate concerns, it is normal,” said Thomas Fatôme, general director of Health Insurance, in Parisian columns dated Friday.
“For example, today, the attention package is different from one department to another and, in some, there is not even one. Tomorrow, it will take 13 euros everywhere and even 28 euros in the main cities to take into account the waste of time in traffic jams,” he recalls on this project presented on May 15, which must enter into force on October 1.
The objective is to control the growth of health transportation spending, which reached 6.74 billion euros in 2024, including 3.07 billion for approved taxis (with a 45% jump since 2019).
These trips to hospitals or medical offices represent the majority of the billing of many drivers, especially in small cities.
“Less vacuum feedback”
Thousands of them were demonstrated on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day, obtaining the organization on Saturday at the Ministry of Transportation of a meeting in the presence of Prime Minister François Bayrou.
The transport of two patients instead of one will be “less expensive for health insurance without eliminating the money from taxis,” he explains, saying that the objective is to organize “a better health transport so that the expense is sustainable.”
As for a possible review of the project before this Honda de los Taxis, he assures that his “door remains open: it is essential, before its implementation, explain in detail this new agreement and reassure the points that would have been misunderstood before its implementation.”
Source: BFM TV
