101 CPAM in Metropolitan France
The Local Health Insurance Funds (Caisses primaires d'assurance maladie / CPAM) are private legal entities with a public service vocation. They ensure close relations with Health Insurance publics.
Their roles involve:
- Affiliating social policyholders.
- Processing healthcare forms and paying benefits relating to Health Insurance and occupational health and safety (reimbursements, maternity, disability, death, payment of per diem allowances and advances of medical expenses to CMU beneficiaries, and so on).
- Implementing an annual action plan concerning risk management in relation with the healthcare professions.
- Developing a health promotion and prevention policy (cancer screening, deficiency detection, and so on).
- Ensuring the implementation of a social and healthcare action plan on the basis of personal aids for policyholders and collective aids for associations.
4 CGSS in overseas departments
In the overseas départements (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane et Réunion), the Social Security General Funds (Caisses générales de sécurité sociale / CGSS) group together the services of the Health Insurance system, the old-age insurance and the Allocations and Social Security Contributions Collection Unions (Union de recouvrement des cotisations de sécurité sociale et d'allocations familiales / URSSAF).
