Biologists thus protest against the drop in their prices provided for by the social security financing bill. They will no longer eat the national test file from Thursday, undermining the follow -up of the epidemic.
Le Monde
They denounce what they call a “blind planing” of the social security budget. Biologists announced Wednesday, October 26, that they will stop feeding the National Covid screening file (SI-DEP) from Thursday.
Within the framework of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), the analysis laboratories were ordered to revise the prices of their current exams (excluding COVVI-19 testing tests). The government plans, thanks to this measure, to achieve 250 million euros in savings in 2023.
“Faced with the deafness of the public authorities, we decided to suspend the transmission of screening data on the SI-DEP platform from October 27,” the president of the president of the Alliance for medical biology, Alain Le Meur.
If patients will continue to receive their results, “there will be no more possible follow-up of the epidemic,” he warns. Laboratories will no longer be reimbursed by health insurance – their shortfall is estimated at 14 million euros per week. 2> “An already high profitability before the crisis”
The profession thus intends to “send a message” to the government, which has not changed its PLFSS, providing for “a drop in prices by decree” in the absence of an “agreement with significant savings” before 1 ER February, up to “at least 250 million”.
“We are attending to ask for efforts from the biology laboratories,” repeated the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal on Tuesday in the Senate, justifying the measure by “a profitability already high before the crisis” and even increased by additional of more than 7 billion “turnover linked to tests” for two years.
Biologists nevertheless proposed to limit the puncture to the year 2023 alone, as profits from the additional their activity due to the COVVI-19. “Okay for an exceptional contribution, but not for a completely blind planer,” sums up Mr. Meur, who warns that biologists are “capable of going further”, until “a strike if the government does not [ The] does not understand “.
The examination of the budget of the “security” in the assembly, interrupted by the use of the 49.3 on the “Revenue” part, resumed on Wednesday evening on the “expenses” aspect, where the disputed article is.