“We are willing to engage in dialogue, but first we need to know what the demands are,” said Minister of Social Security Claude Haagen in response to the AMMD’s ultimatum.
During its extraordinary general assembly on Wednesday, the AMMD threatened to withdraw from the electronic medical file, the immediate direct payment system, all committees, including the nomenclature committee, and at least partially from the convention with the National Health Fund (CNS).
In an interview with RTL Télé on Thursday evening, Haagen said that the announcement of an ultimatum took him by surprise. “I was at the AMMD’s general assembly where they mainly discussed the electronic signature, a subject on which we came to a partial consensus,” the Minister explained, adding that “neither I, nor Paulette Lenert, have received anything relating to the other demands regarding an ultimatum.” Haagen stated that this is all he could say on the matter before adding, “when we were at the general assembly, there was no mention of an ultimatum, or of four million for that matter.”
The four million mentioned by the Minister is the amount of money the AMMD spent on the development of its own Health App.
The association made this investment and is now demanding a “smart solution” for this financing.
Full report by RTL Télé (in Luxembourgish):
RTL-News: Digitaliséierung an der Medezin - Doktere solle mat Sue motivéiert ginn
