The Orléans Criminal Court (Loiret) on Thursday sentenced a general practitioner, prosecuted for fraud, who claimed to receive up to 120 patients per day.
This doctor, Dr. Jean-Marc Blanchon, was sentenced to two years in prison, a one-year ban on practice and will have to return his real estate, bank accounts, vehicles and plane.
According to
La République du Center
, he will also have to reimburse nearly 600,000 euros to the Primary Health Insurance Fund and pay a fine of 50,000 euros to the Public Treasury.
The prosecution had requested five years in prison, three of which were suspended, and five years of prohibition to practice.
His trial was held in June.
Between 12 and 15 hours of work per day
The doctor was implicated after a complaint from the CPAM for "suspected false declaration" in 2019. Claiming his innocence, Dr. Blanchon was taken into police custody on July 4.
Claiming to be a victim of the medical desert, the doctor, interviewed by AFP, said in 2019 that "Social Security tolerates a general practitioner seeing up to 72 people per day".
He prided himself on being “the only doctor to take everyone, without an appointment.
People are obviously flocking.
Sometimes I see up to 120 patients a day, ”he said, working between 12 and 15 hours a day.
The director of the Loiret CPAM, for his part, had expressed “serious doubts about certain acts that we cannot understand”.
Dr Blanchon has ten days to appeal.
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