30 € at the general practitioner, 60 at the specialist if you are referred by a general practitioner: the price of certain consultations increases on Sunday December 22, 2024. This will, however, have no impact on the vast majority of patients, who will remain reimbursed as Before.
These increases are linked to the new agreement signed in June by Health Insurance and the unions of private doctors, to define their relations over the period 2024-2029. This provides “significant upgrades” for practitioners, “necessary” in view of inflation, with in return actions to “transform the health system”in particular collective commitments on access to care and “relevance and quality” care, underlines the National Health Insurance Fund.
Make the activity “more attractive”
In detail, the reference consultation of general practitioners therefore increases from €26.50 to €30. At the same time, “the occasional consultant opinion”which pays for the expertise provided by a specialist at the request of a general practitioner, increases from €56.50 to €60.
Objective: to encourage the installation of doctors in town practices, by making the activity « plus attractive »especially for general practitioners. They see a million patients per day.
No change for the wallet of the majority of French people: these prices are reimbursed by Health Insurance (70%) and supplementary insurance (30%), after deduction of the two euros of “flat rate contribution” always due by the patient, in the limit of €50 per year per patient. However, 4% of French people do not benefit from complementary health insurance and will automatically see their out-of-pocket costs increase.
Doctors commit to quantified objectives
Other consultations will increase in two stages, partially on Sunday, then on 1is July, for certain specialties whose income is lower and to respond to “public health issues”. The agreement represents 950 million euros in additional spending in 2025 for Health Insurance (excluding new measures taken by the executive) and 1.6 billion over time.
In return, doctors are committing collectively and today to “ten numerical objectives” (reduce the rate of patients with long-term illnesses without a treating doctor to 2%, increase their patient base by 2% per year, etc.) and fifteen action programs to “relevance and quality” care (reduction in prescriptions for sick leave, certain medications, medical transport, etc.).
The results will be monitored by an observatory. They will be published online every quarter, starting in the first quarter of 2025.
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