Insurers health saved 2.6 billion euros in reimbursements during the health crisis, according to our colleagues in the newspaper The echoes .
Already, at the beginning of July, the figure put forward by BFM Business announced savings of around € 780 million during the confinement.
In Argus of insurance In mid-June, the Ministries of Health and Action and Public Accounts appealed for the solidarity of complementary organizations.
This figure is explained by the refusal of a part of the French to go to the care services for treatment during the confinement period, due to the saturation of certain health systems and for fear of being infected.
Health insurance: losses of 30 billion euros
The government’s appeal did not seem to have had the desired effect. However, health insurers are not under any illusions: at the start of the school year, they will have to return the sums they have saved due to the health crisis. A sum that they will most certainly have to return to Medicare, which alone assumed the reimbursements of the teleconsultations.
According to The echoes, the losses of Medicare are announced, indeed, daunting: of the order of 30 billion euros. Insurers, provident institutions and mutuals were informed in July of the executive’s desire to include this tax in the Social Security budget which will be discussed in the fall.
Several schemes are under study. The difficulty will be to measure the impact of consultations that were not simply canceled, but just postponed in time.
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