The new health insurance campaign with the most prescribed general practitioners of the disease license days, to reduce this practice, awakens the anger of doctors’ unions.
Health insurance has launched in recent weeks a new “objective” campaign of the most prescribed general doctors for the days of illness license, while there is a “serious risk” of jumping expenses in 2025.
She contacts these professionals and launches a procedure aimed at what they are committed to decrease, usually 20% according to the MG France Union, the number of days of illness they prescribe.
According to health insurance, around 500 general professionals in France are affected by this new campaign, with “objective bets” that will enter into force as of September 1.
Then a second wave will continue, with “effective objectives of January 1.
“But you can imagine that a general practitioner in his office will not stop for a long time to need it. It is neither fraud or abuse, but the patients who need it and for those who are trapped,” without another solution to avoid a new degradation of the person’s health status, he added.
Ascending expenses
“In most cases,” the doctor aimed at health insurance has “a perfectly normal and reasonable practice, and his only way to reduce the recipe figure will be burn his patients,” said Agnès Giannotti.
A previous campaign had taken place in 2023/2024, and had been very seriously received in the profession.
All doctors unions recommend that general professionals referred to rejecting “objectives.”
This rejection causes the “prior agreement” of the doctor, which means that all its disease license recipes must be approved by medical insurance advice.
On Wednesday, the Health Expenses Surveillance Tower (the Compliance Alert Committee on the objective of health insurance expenses) warned that daily assignments had increased by 6.7% during the first 4 months of 2025, and that the prognosis made in the Social Security Budget by 2025 could exceed 0.5 billion euros.
Source: BFM TV
