Didier Raoult in September 2020 -

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According to the daily Liberation, which investigated the massive use of day hospitalizations within the AP-HM in 2020, Covid 19 patients discovered stunned the bills for their visits to the IHU in Marseille.

Several testimonies show an amount of 1,264 euros invoiced for each of their visit to the IHU.

However, the patients in question came three times for, each time, a consultation, a blood test and an electrocardiogram.

Their final invoice thus amounts to 3,800 euros.

"We are now talking about day hospitalization, but in fact the treatment lasts ten minutes to take blood tests, three and a half minutes to do the electrocardiogram, and five minutes to consult for the delivery of hydroxychloroquine, and there you go… The rest is just waiting in the corridors, ”says one patient, for example.

Indeed,

Liberation

 shows that these passages were billed for day hospitalization (HDJ).

“Each hospital has a HDJ service, which allows a battery of examinations to be grouped together for the same patient in a relatively short time,” recalls the daily.

For the patient, it saves time;

for the community, it is the assurance of not occupying a hospital bed for several days.

Rather than billing each examination separately, the hospital then claims its due from the patient for day hospitalization.

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Except that, to read

Liberation

, the patient must still be hospitalized, in other words benefit from a room, a bed, a snack at noon, which was not the case for the testimonies collected.

No additional cost for Social Security according to the AP-HM

Asked by the daily, Yanis Roussel, in charge of communication for Professor Raoult, insisted that "the IHU does not perceive financial income linked to the care activities carried out within its walls".

The AP-HM, for its part, affirms that the invoices are established according to "official texts", and indicates that "requests for graceful remission are currently being studied" for patients without mutual insurance having to pay an outstanding charge.

It also defends itself against any "additional cost for Health Insurance" linked to this "overactivity" in day hospitalization ".

The investigation is signed by Christian Lehmann, writer and doctor in the Yvelines, who keeps a column for the newspaper.

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