Government announcement makes Caroline “furious”. Resident of Seine-Saint-Denis, a medical desert, she does not understand that theStops delivered by teleconsultation by a doctor other than the treating doctor will no longer be reimbursed by social security, from June 1, 2023. “For my GP, I don’t have an appointment for three weeks, she explains. How do I do, for example, in the case of the flu? 40 fever for three or four days, I am not able to work. If I go to work, I will contaminate my colleagues, so I need a sick leave. This is not a work stoppage of convenience”she gets annoyed.
Caroline, who often teleconsults, has even installed a dedicated application on her laptop. “I’ve already had work stoppages in this way and I even had one for ‘overwork’. I came across a doctor who was quite understanding and who gave me a five-day work stoppage. days.”
“Over the past year, 110,000 work stoppages were made by teleconsultation. It was twice as much as the previous year and it will be twice as much this year“, indicates this Tuesday on franceinfo François Braun, Minister of Health and Prevention. “Of these 110,000 work stoppages, in 8 cases out of 10, these are patients who have an attending physician and who have had their work stopped by another doctor. It questions“, he explains.
With, also the idea, that these judgments delivered in video cost 95 million euros to Social Security, last year, for appointments “very expeditious“, according to Jean-Christophe Nogrette, of the union of general practitioners MG France. “When we have to see patients who have teleconsulted, they all tell us ‘It happened in five minutes, I asked if I could be arrested. I was told no problem, I’ll give you the week , he advances. There is clearly a drift on industrial teleconsultation”, slice like this Jean-Christophe Nogrette.
Faced with this, from next summer, to be reimbursed, it will therefore be necessary to contact your doctor, or a doctor already consulted during the last twelve months. On franceinfo, François Braun nevertheless ensures that “special cases“may be”dealt with on a case-by-case basis“, for example if a “pan elderly person who is in an under-resourced area, who no longer has an attending physician because he has stopped working, he can resort to temporary sick leave if necessary“via teleconsultation with another doctor.