Sign inFrance - the GREAT HEARING AID SWINDLE
The French administration is fighting nationwide against fraudsters abusing new public health subsidies. A system designed to help people with hearing loss get 100% cover for the devices they need has in many cases proved to be a temptation to unscrupulous operators to help themselves to the large sums a subsidy involves.
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It was a long time coming, but in 2019 new subsidies were finally introduced within the French public health system to cover a range of products and services that many other countries had for some time provided to their populations as essential to their well-being. Great enthusiasm welcomed the reform known as 100% Santé (100% Healthcare), which requires supplementary health insurance providers to cover 100% of the cost of approved glasses, dentures and hearing aids, with no out-of-pocket expenses.
But these blue skies soon clouded over. As editor-in-chief of Audio Infos France, Corinne Couté, has written, shadows formed between 2021 and 2023 when the increasingly competitive market was sullied by revelations of fraudulent abuse of the subsidies. These continuing swindles necessitate the intervention of the relevant authority, the National Fund for Health Insurance (Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie - CNAM), and have...
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