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Contents of article "The ’carte européenne d’assurance maladie’"  Carte européenne d’assurance maladie
Carte européenne d’assurance maladie
Live in France but holiday elsewhere in Europe?
The French Social Security site www.ameli.fr recommends that all French residents take a carte européenne d’assurance maladie with them when travelling to other EU countries or Switzerland. This card will ensure free or subsidized medical treatment (depending on the country visited of course) and is easy to obtain, assuming that you are already part of the great machine that is the French medical system.
- To receive this card, write, ring or visit your local CPAM at least two weeks before travelling. (the CPAM now have an English speaking telephone line 0820 904 212 to advise and help out with administration)
- No documents are required by you
- Each family member is entitled to his or her own card, even the U16s
- The card is valid for one year
- If you are leaving in less than two weeks, your CPAM can provide you with a temporary document - un certificat provisoire – valid for three months.
- Present this carte européenne d’assurance maladie to any doctor, chemist or hospital abroad and you will be reinbursed according to the medical legislation and rates of the country you are in (for example, in Britain treatment would be free according to the National Health Service)
- If you do not have a carte européenne d’assurance maladie, or have lost or forgotten it, you may still be reimbursed on your return, according to French rates.
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