ameli.fr - Getting informed about Health Insurance

Created sixty years ago, Health Insurance has become a major actor within healthcare system: flashback on our welfare system’s origins and organization.

• Over the years
• Several different health insurance schemes
• Several different general scheme branches

August-2004-health insurance reform Law aims at saving health insurance whereas maintaining universal, compulsory and jointly liable aspect.

• Understanding the reform
• Health Insurance within the healthcare system
• Reinforced responsibilities

The health insurance fund national union (UNCAM) puts together the three main health insurance schemes.

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The French National Health Insurance Fund manages, at a national level, sickness and industrial accidents/professional diseases branches of the social security general scheme.

• A job: risk management
• A sort of company specialized in services
• Introduction of CNAMTS
• CNAMTS’missions
• The CNAMTS Council
• The Occupational Health and Safety Committee
• The Scientific Council
• The Monitoring Council
• Documentation Centre

CNAMTS steers the health insurance organizations of the general scheme.

• CPAMs and CGSSs : a local network
• Health Insurance Medical Control Service
• CRAMs : regional health insurance representatives
• URCAMs : risk managers at a regional level
• UGECAMs: institution managers