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Health: do patients have to pay when they do not keep a medical appointment?
Health: do patients have to pay when they do not keep a medical appointment? – (France 2)
Charging patients who do not keep their appointment with the dentist: this is what the profession and the doctors who can no longer stand being asked questions about.
Unkept appointments are a scourge for doctors. According to Doctor Fabrice Katan, dental surgeon, it is even more common among dentists. “People have a kind of impulse when they suffer. When they get there, they suffer less and tell themselves that it’s going to be okay”, he believes. According to the Doctolib platform, there are more than 6% of ghost patients for dentists. However, all health professionals are affected.
Nearly 27 million slots wasted each year
Faced with this phenomenon, the Senate has just voted for a rabbit tax. It provides for a sum payable by the unscrupulous insured. If the idea of a sanction is well received, it remains to be seen how to apply it. On the patient side, we are also aware that we must act. The rabbits are all the more unbearable for those who cannot find a date. These would represent nearly 27 million slots wasted each year.
