As in previous years, the rates for mutuals will increase "by an average of 3%" in 2020. At the same time, some glasses and dentures will be fully reimbursed from 1 January.

Mutuals' contributions will increase "by an average of 3%" next year, as in previous years, announced French Mutuality Friday, while some glasses and dentures will be fully reimbursed from January 1st.

"Special cases are always possible"

"The contributions of mutuals will increase in the same proportions as in previous years, that is to say on average of 3% per year in the last ten years", even if "special cases are still possible," said the president Mutuality, Thierry Beaudet, in a statement. This statement comes after a meeting with Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health, who received the representatives of mutual, insurance and provident institutions for a follow-up point of the reform "100% health".

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"The objective of this meeting was to secure the next step", which includes "100% reimbursements" for optics and dentistry, as well as an "additional reduction of 250 euros of the rest" by prosthesis hearing, the minister said in a statement. She took the opportunity to recall that this reform "could not be a reason to raise tariffs in 2020" and stress "the importance of a moderate evolution of contributions" in order to "guarantee effective access to care of all the French ".