2023-08-09 17:42:19
Baptiste Morin / Crédit photo : ERIC BERACASSAT / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
5,000 practitioners were recently contacted by Health Insurance on the grounds that they would prescribe too many sick leaves, thus leading to an increase in the bill for the State. According to Bercy, these would be up 30% over the last ten years.
The executive wants to tighten controls around sick leave issued by doctors. To do this, the Health Insurance has contacted 5,000 practitioners, suspected of being too complacent and of prescribing too many documents of this type. These doctors are quite simply those who signed more sick leaves than the average per doctor in their department.
They received an email from Health Insurance to explain themselves. Jean-Paul Hamon, the honorary president of the Federation of Doctors of France, was able to discuss with a professional concerned who told him of his dismay. “A 59-year-old woman who was in tears, devastated and who felt really humiliated that we could challenge her way of working. The health insurance fund does not take into account the patient profile and simply makes a rule of three She says ‘this one has made more work stoppages than so and so and so we are going to prosecute him'”, he denounces.
Interviews that will run until the end of September
For its part, the Health Insurance responds that it is not a question of summons but of alert interviews. The latter, moreover, began last May and will continue until the end of September. A procedure which aims to shed light on sick leave, up 30% in the last ten years, according to the Ministry of the Economy.
In 2022, these nine million work stoppages cost 14 billion euros to the Social Security. However, this increase can also be explained by the aging of the population, the fall in unemployment or even the increase in wages.
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