Work stoppages prescribed by teleconsultation cannot, in principle, exceed 3 days nor extend the duration of a work stoppage already in progress to more than 3 days.
As part of the Social Security financing law for 2024, the government limits the duration of work interruptions prescribed by teleconsultation in order to “strengthen the medical monitoring of patients whose state of health requires an interruption of work” and to reduce unjustified daily allowance expenses.
Thus, since January 1, 2024, work stoppages prescribed as part of a teleconsultation cannot exceed 3 days. They also cannot extend the duration of a work stoppage already in progress to more than 3 days. Consequently, work stoppages prescribed by teleconsultation only give rise to the payment of daily allowances for a maximum period of 3 days.
In practice : policyholders who are subject to a 3-day waiting period to receive daily allowances will therefore not be compensated for this work stoppage.
Two exceptions to this rule are nevertheless provided. Thus, the work stoppage obtained as part of a teleconsultation can exceed 3 days:
– if it is prescribed or renewed by the insured’s attending physician or midwife;
– in the event of it being impossible, justified by the patient, to consult a doctor in person to obtain an extension of their sick leave (attending doctor absent or unavailable, difficulty in consulting a doctor in areas of low medical density, etc.).
2024-01-17 01:36:28
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