Do you often tend to forget your vital card? This bad habit will quickly have to be corrected, to obtain the reimbursement of certain drugs. Indeed, health insurance revealed this Tuesday, June 17, that the presentation of the vital card should now be “systematic“. Explanations.
Present your vital card in pharmacy: a simple but essential gesture
Faced with the worrying increase in fraud and diversions of certain sensitive drugs – narcotics, antidiabetics or expensive treatments – health insurance, in agreement with pharmacist unions, decided to strengthen the rules conditioning a third party.
Thus, during each visit to the pharmacy, you will now have to present your vital – physical or digitalized card – to benefit from the reimbursement of your medicines.
“In order to promote the proper use of the health system, to further secure the issuance of sensitive and/or expensive drugs, to limit fraud and to improve the traceability of the care path, it will now be compulsory to present your vital card in pharmacy to benefit from care”confirms health insurance in a press release.
“The vital card – whether physical or dematerialized – is an essential tool to guarantee rapid care and to facilitate reimbursements. It also allows better patient follow -up by health professionals thanks to access to his shared medical file”, Concludes Thomas Fatôme, Director General of Health Insurance.
Reduce fraud and preserve our health system
A device that is part “Within the framework of the pharmaceutical agreement (article 11 of the addendum 1) and which aims to reduce unsecured, increasingly frequent invoicing”, specifies the organization. These sensitive drugs (such as all narcotics or certain antidiabetics) or expensive (more than € 300 including tax per box) have a higher risk of traffic or misuse. Their deliverance without map Vital will therefore have to be exceptional (for example for infants of less than 3 months or as part of a stay in nursing homes). Patients under the Soul must present their map A soul in order to benefit from the third-party payment.
A new simple measure, but which allows access to a more effective, safer, and always more united health system according to Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families that declares: “Healing is also to act with responsibility. Everyone has a role to play in preserving our health system. Present your map Vital In pharmacies, it is a simple but essential gesture for fair, fast and secure access to care and to firmly fight against abuse “.