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Healthcare in France (Digital)
Healthcare in France (Digital)
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This guide is available as a digital file and can be accessed and downloaded from the links provided after checkout and via email.
Published: 27/01/2025
- Understand the French healthcare system, how you access it and how you are reimbursed both for treatment from GPs, specialists and for hospital stays.
- Useful if you are new to the French healthcare system or want a more in-depth understanding
Aimed at non-French nationals living here or moving over. The guide gives an overview of what you are - and are not - covered for. It also has information for second-home owners and regular visitors.
We explain the rules of health cover which can be complex and which depend upon your personal circumstances; the guide helps you to understand the French healthcare system from your own perspective.
We may add updates of key information during 2025 and an email will be sent alerting buyers to these. Updates during 2025 are free and automatically added to your guide. After this calendar year we would expect to publish a new guide (buyers would need to purchase this)
Contents include (for a full list click on Contents page left):
Overview of the French healthcare system
- How it compares internationally and France's strong and weaker points
- Registering and finding a GP
- What medical services are available
- How to find an English-speaking doctor
- How and why you should get a carte Vitale
- How to pay for medical treatment
Mutuelles
- How to shop for a mutuelle / top-up insurance
- What does 100% / 200% / 300% reimbursement actually mean?
- What to do if you have a problem with your insurance company
- How to switch companies
- Getting free or subsidised insurance cover for people on a modest income
Moving over
- What Brexit changed
- The healthcare rules for long-stay visas
- Cover for second-home owners
- Health rights and the 90/180 rule for foreign visitors
- European versus Global (UK) health insurance cards
- Moving over as a British or EU state pensioner, the S1 system
- Moving over as an early retiree and private insurance
- Cover for self-employed workers
Pharmacies
- How you are reimbursed for medicines
- Reciprocal rules on prescriptions within the EU
- E-prescriptions and other new trends in pharmacy services
- What extra services can pharmacies offer
Reimbursements
- Examples of tarifs de convention
- What costs apply to hospital stays?
- Emergencies / Medical transport options / Medical supplies / Blood test labs
- Nurses, speech therapists, psychologists, osteopaths, hypnosis and alternative medicines
New technologies
- How téléassistance and ‘health cabins’ work
- The digital carte Vitale and how soon you can get one
- France’s new online digital health space
Ancillary services
- Finding a doctor out-of-hours
- Vaccinations
- The 100% Santé reform for full reimbursement of dental, eye and hearing care
- Costs of crowns, implants and dentures
- Plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery
- The free two-hour health check open to all
Cancer and Alzheimer’s
- Cancer overview in France
- Details on different types of cancer
- Help for Alzheimer’s sufferers
Healthcare abroad for French residents
- Healthcare outside of France
- Other treatments in the EU
- Post-Brexit rights to healthcare in the UK
Disability benefits
- Exportable benefits
- French benefits
- Help for people who no longer work (full-time)
CPAM health authorities
- Contesting a CPAM decision
Please note:
This guide is available as a digital file and can be accessed and downloaded from the links provided after checkout and via email.
The information in this guide is of a general nature and is not advice which if needed can be sought by instructing a professional on the specifics of your situation.
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