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According to Ansa, if the test is carried out in the professional’s office, a remuneration for general practitioners of 18 euros is expected. The signing of the agreement must arrive at night.
To decongest the testing system and be able to quickly identify new coronavirus infections, it will soon be possible to undergo rapid smears at the GP’s office.
If the test is performed in the practitioner’s office, a general practitioner fee of € 18 is expected, which should drop to € 12 if the rapid swab is performed in an ASL facility. The cost of the tests will be borne by the state and not the patient. These would be the provisions of the agreement, currently still in definition, for rapid swabs for Covid-19 in the offices of family doctors and pediatricians of free choice. The doctors unions were summoned this afternoon, October 27, by Sisac (Interregional Health Organization) to discuss the terms of the agreement.
The deal must be signed at night.
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The signing of the emergency agreement for quick swabs for Covid-19 in the offices of family doctors should arrive at night.
As learned from the loop, € 30 million would have been earmarked for this purpose.
The text is merged with the National Collective Agreement (the contract of employment of affiliated doctors) and could establish the obligation of all general practitioners to perform rapid tests.
However, according to the source, the unions have requested that membership be exclusively voluntary. Instead, there would have been changes in the initial text in relation to the diagnostic tools that will be delivered by the Regions to medical offices: the training and maintenance of the equipment would no longer be the responsibility of the professionals.
Coronavirus, Rezza: marked increase in cases in recent weeks
While negotiations between family doctors and the Government continue, this afternoon, October 27, during a press conference organized by the same Ministry together with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, to take stock of the emergency situation Health care in our country, Gianni Rezza, general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, stressed that given the increase in coronavirus cases in the Peninsula, intensive care is still below the alert level.
“Today we are in a different situation than in March, we were the first to experience the pandemic, today other countries are leading the way and we are watching them very carefully,” he explained. “This is because in March others learned from our experience, today we can understand where the epidemic could go if we do not take certain measures.”
