It’s official : general practitioners have validated the revaluations of consultation prices. A new blow for the French, who fear seeing their health budget go up in flames while specialist doctors will also see their prices increased. Initially, the consultation of a general practitioner will increase from 26.50 euros to 30 euros. This is’a decision taken so that the caregiver can pay the expenses of his office. But what will be the real impact for the patient?
Rising doctor prices: a worrying prospect
The French no longer know where to turn with all the increases announced. I have to say that the era is marked by a decline in purchasing power and above all an explosion in costs, which also affects the health budget. As Doctor Agnès Gianotti, president of MG France, explains to our colleagues at France Info, “it is quite simply a maintenance of the consultation price by following inflation”. Targeted ? The good health of certain firms in the face of increasingly significant costs.
Increase in doctor prices: what will the real cost be?
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For a specialist, it will now cost between 30 and 60 euros. A prospect that worries patients, convinced that this will lead to an explosion in fee overruns. Several people interviewed wonder, in fact, about a potential increase in mutual insurance while Frédéric Bizard, economist specializing in health, calls for “an increase in the value of the real act between specialists and general practitioners”. To better understand this increase in prices, discover, in our slideshow, the price you will really pay once reimbursed.
