The salty bills of the patients of the IHU of Marseilles in the viewfinder of the Sécu – Liberation
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Months ago, “Liberation” investigated the massive use of day hospitalizations within the AP-HM in 2020, representing a significant cost for Social Security. The director general of health insurance acknowledged this Wednesday the opening of a procedure.
On March 10, 2021, Release Revealing, after an investigation of several months, the existence of a system of massive recourse to day hospitalizations (HDJ) within the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) during the year 2020, representing a significant cost for Social Security, complementary organizations, even patients without mutual insurance. At the heart of the questions, the role of the Mediterranean Infection University Hospital Institute (IHU), then directed by Professor Didier Raoult. Sixteen months later, the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam) seems to be emerging from its immobility.
This Wednesday, the director of the body, Thomas Fatôme, was heard by the Senate’s Social Affairs Committee on the annual report of Social Security charges. The question came from the environmental senator of Paris Bernard Jomier, very involved in the file: “There is an alleged overcharging fraud with serious arguments which relate to several million euros at the IHU Marseille. Have you opened an investigation? Have you taken action?…