Since 1is March 2023, antigenic tests for Covid-19 carried out by health professionals were only reimbursed at 70% or even 60% (except for minors and those over 65), with a maximum price for those -this. They could no longer be reimbursed at all, according to a draft decree revealed by the pharmacists’ union USPO, Wednesday January 15, 2025.
The health crisis behind us, but…
He plans to modify the decree of 1is June 2021 “prescribing the general measures necessary for managing the exit from the health crisis” and to reserve reimbursement for vaccination only. Certainly, the Covid health crisis is behind us, and the virus itself is quite discreet, “but this is incomprehensible in the midst of an epidemic of respiratory infections, scolds Pierre-Olivier Variot, the president of the USPO. And while the Prime Minister assured that he would not reimburse medicines. »
The use of Covid antigen tests reached its peak in 2022 (more than 85 million). Since the marketing of combined Covid-flu antigen tests, the latter are the most used: “But the High Health Authority has still not assessed their reimbursement. » The HAS had in fact issued a first negative opinion in June 2023 on the medical benefit of combined tests on an individual level.
Self-tests have always paid off
Most combined Covid-flu tests are not more expensive than the Covid test alone, which still allowed reimbursement. The remaining cost for the three times more expensive triple test (including bronchiolitis) was already more notable. Remember that self-tests have never been reimbursed, except for certain professions.
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