Contrary to the “blind plan” of the social security budget, which wants to impose on them 250 million euros in savings per year, biologists announced on Wednesday that they will stop feeding the national file with Covid screening tests (SI-DEP) from Thursday.
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, declared to AFP the president of the Alliance for Medical Biology, Alain Le Meur.
If patients continue to receive their results, there will be no further follow-up of the epidemic, he warns. Laboratories will no longer be reimbursed by health insurance – a deficit of 14 million euros per week.
The profession thus intends to send a message to the government, which has not changed its financing law for social security, which assumes a drop in tariffs as standard for an agreement that presents significant savings before February 1, up to at least 250 million.
We assume to ask for efforts from the biology laboratories, repeated the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, on Tuesday in the Senate, justifying the measure with a profitability already high before the crisis and further increased by an increase of more than 7 billion. business related to testing for two years.
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However, the biologists have proposed to limit the puncture to the year 2023 only during Covid’s surplus. Agreed for an exceptional contribution, but not for a totally blind plane, sums up Mr. Le Meur, who warns that biologists are able to go further, to a strike if the government does not understand (them).
The review of the Scu budget at the assembly, interrupted by the use of 49.3 on the revenue part, was resumed on Wednesday evening on the expenditure side, where the contested article appears.
