This decision was made in the process of a recommendation in this sense of the High Authority for Health.
Le Monde with AFP
The detection tests of the virus of the variole of the monkey will be reimbursed 100 % by health insurance, announces Saturday July 30 a decree in the Official Journal. This decision was made in the process of a recommendation in this sense of the High Authority for Health.
“The development of the monkey’s smallpox epidemic involves being able to confirm the cases of infection in the absence of a sufficiently explicit clinical picture” and the amplification tests of nucleic acids (TAAN) (technique which includes the PCR tests) “confirm the infections”, underlines this decree. “It is therefore advisable that these screening tests are supported by health insurance”, continues the text.
a clinical diagnosis above all test
Monday the High Authority for Health had spoken out for reimbursement by test insurance, after being seized by the Ministry of Health on the issue.
The High Authority for Health had recalled that the diagnosis is based first on the patient’s examination and interrogation, specifying that “Test Test detection should only be carried out in case of persistent doubt after clinical examination “To” confirm or not “infection.
“The use of this type of test is thus limited to” suspicious cases “and” possible cases “, as defined by public health France and is not necessary in the absence of symptoms”, had specified the health authority.