L’Assurance Maladie has just announced “exceptional financial aid” for liberal health professionals. An additional discount for refueling their vehicle will be granted for business trips. This boost is welcome following several months of rising fuel prices.
“Exceptional financial aid” is the term used by Health Insurance for the announcement of a boost for liberal caregivers. The latter will benefit from a doubled discount at the pump to help fill up for business trips.
A temporary measure
This measure was announced at the end of the day on Monday April 25 in A press release. The aim is to cope with “the increase in the cost of fuel” and to “support health professionals who have to travel as part of the care delivered to patients at home”. This financial enhancement is complementary to that already implemented by the government at the pump.
Thus, in addition to the aid already applied of €0.15 per litre, Health Insurance is increasing from this Monday, April 25 the “compensation for
travel and mileage allowances”. This new aid will correspond to 15 cents per liter, a doubling of the boost already in place for several weeks.
A total of €0.30 aid per liter
This bonus is intended to “contracted health professionals”. As reminded Le Figaroare concerned nurses, physiotherapists, doctors, midwives, speech therapists, podiatrists and podiatrists, or laboratory staff, and finally orthoptists and dentists. This revaluation should be temporary and extend until July 31, like the aid from the Castex government.
Thus, cumulatively, “with the help of the government and the exceptional measure of Health Insurance”, liberal caregivers will benefit from “aid of at least €0.30 per liter”. All “independently of the other aid announced by the government, in particular the increase in the 2022 scale of mileage allowances”.
This measure is welcomed in particular by the National Federation of Nurses (FNI) but the organization questions the “transitional nature” of the bonus. The FNI had been asking the government for aid for several months for liberal health professionals, reports Le Figaro. It’s now done.