This agreement provides for savings of several million euros in 2023.
Private medical analysis laboratories and Health Insurance signed an agreement on Tuesday providing for savings in 2023, ending three months of arm wrestling enamelled by several strike movements, we learned from the two parties. The text provides for a reduction in prices of up to 250 million euros, spread over all medical biology examinations, and a new negotiation for the period 2024-2026, which must be concluded before September 1, according to this document. consulted by AFP.
A compromise between the savings demanded since September by the government, which pointed to the high profits of the laboratories, and the sector which refused a lasting puncture. Health Insurance welcomed in a press release this “agreement signed with all representatives of biologists“. The four unions representing this liberal profession have indeed initialed this amendment to their agreement.
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After several calls for the blocking of Covid test results and the closure of laboratories, the Social Security considers that “this return to the spirit of responsibility (…) must allow the immediate restoration of epidemiological vigilance and access to care for patients“. A wish that will quickly be granted: the president of the Syndicate of Biologists, François Blanchecotte, confirmed to AFP that all the actions in progress would be lifted “tomorrow» Wednesday 0h00.
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