Question 14443 — health

Summary

Ms. Emmanuelle Anthoine alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the lack of supervision and control of the activities of so-called low-cost oral health centers by the competent authorities and the recent IGAS report on this subject. Indeed, received in May 2016 a mission relating to dental health centers, in particular those called low-cost, the IGAS issued a report on the situation of patients suffering from poor or incompletely carried out following the judicial liquidation of the Dentexia centers and proposed methods of regulating dental centers guaranteeing the quality and safety of care. The abolition, in 2009, of the prior authorization for opening a health center, combined with patient demand for less expensive dental care, resulted in a 25% increase in the number of dental health centers between 2011 and 2016. This progression has not been regulated, in a context where controls from regional health agencies and health insurance are rare and has led to significant deviations. The report therefore recommends renewed legal, financial and health regulations to guarantee the safety of care delivered to users, such as the establishment of a declaration of interests to be completed by center managers, coordinated targeting controls by health and financial authorities, new quality standards for oral health, developed by the High Health Authority and the definition of good practices in consultation with professionals. Thus, dental centers should be subject to the same rules as all health professionals with the obligation to respect the health and ethics codes under the control of the ARS and the advice from the order for salaried practitioners. This is why she asks him for the Government's position on all of these questions.

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