To which social security body is there a link for health insurance?
Verified 13 March 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The social security body to which you are attached in the field of health insurance depends on your professional activity, regardless of your nationality.
You are covered by the general social security scheme, unless your activity is of an agricultural nature.
Your contact is the Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM) of your place of residence habitual residence.
The persons concerned are in particular the following:
- Private sector employee
- Non-permanent official of the public sector
- Maternal assistant
- Home worker or salesperson
- Traveler and Commercial Representative (VRP)
- Freelance professional journalist
- Performing artist and model
- Theater, cinema and other entertainment establishments
- Person who has taken out a civic service
- Hotel employee, cafe, restaurant
The artist-writers (literary, musical, graphic, plastic works, etc.) are also part of the social system of artist-authors. This scheme is part of the general social security scheme for employees.
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
You are attached to the special scheme for civil servants.
Your contact varies depending on whether you are a public servant:
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
You're attached to the farm plan.
From the moment you are attached to the agricultural system, your interlocutor is the fund of the Agricultural Social Mutual Society (MSA) of your actual place of work.
Warning
If you are employed by a company that does not have an establishment in France, your interlocutor is the MSA of Alsace.
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
The social security of the self-employed is managed by the general social security system.
The sickness insurance fund of your place of residence is responsible for your health costs.
If you have any questions about your social protection, you can continue to visit the website of the Social Security of the Self-Employed.
Who shall I contact
All self-employed workers, both active and retired, are affected in particular :
- Craftsmen and traders
- Micro-entrepreneurs
- Liberal professionals.
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
You're attached to the special military regime.
Your interlocutor is the National Military Social Security Fund (CNMSS) regardless of your place of residence.
Who shall I contact
National Military Social Security Fund (CNMSS)
Risk management of sickness, maternity and health and social insurance for insured persons covered by the military system
By telephone for insured persons and health professionals
+33 (0)4 94 16 36 00
Open from Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm
By telephone for disability pensioners, injured on duty, victims of terrorism and health professionals
+ 33 (0)4 94 16 96 20
By E-mail
Contact forms available on CNMSS website
By post for active or retired military insured
National Military Social Security Fund
247 Jacques Cartier Avenue
83090 TOULON CEDEX 9
FRANCE
By post for persons on disability pension or injured on duty
National Military Social Security Fund
Department for the Care and Follow-up of the Injured and Pensioner
TSA 41001
83090 TOULON CEDEX 9
FRANCE
By a reception point
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
Are you employed or similar, without a permanent residence or residence and employed by fairground merchants, traveling circuses and theater touring organizations?
You note:
- If travel is from a fixed point, the Primary Health Insurance Fund or the General Social Security Fund on which that point depends
- If the trips are normally made in a region, the Primary Health Insurance Fund or the General Social Security Fund on which the center of that region depends
- If the trips take place throughout the territory, from the Caisse primaire d'assurance santé de Paris.
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
You are attached to a special social security scheme if you exercise in particular in the following companies or fields of activity:
In the event of a change of professional situation (retirement, change of activity, etc.), contact your social security organization to find out what steps to take.
In the event of a change of organization providing for your health care costs, the old organization continues to provide for your health care costs until the new organization does.
When you are attached to a new organization, the new organization must make the change by means of an online service (or, in the absence of a form).
You are informed of your new connection within one month.
If you are not covered by any occupational scheme, you may, under conditions, be affiliated to the general scheme on the basis of residence.
Affiliation to the CPAM of the place of habitual residence (Article R312-1)
Bodies subject to a special social security scheme
Change of organization responsible for health costs
Persons affiliated to the general social security scheme
Affiliations of IHR persons to the general scheme
Self-Employed Persons Scheme (IHR)
Implementation of agricultural social protection by the agricultural social mutual society (Article L721-1)
Self-employed persons affiliated to the agricultural scheme
Employed persons affiliated to the agricultural scheme
Bodies responsible for covering health costs by sector of activity (civil servants, military personnel, self-employed non-agricultural workers, etc.)civil servants and military personnel
Affiliation of officials
Online service
Service-Public.fr
Vie-publique.fr
Ministry of Social Affairs
National Union of Special Schemes (UNRS)
Mutual public service
National Military Social Security Fund (CNMSS)
National Autonomous Fund for Social Security in Mines (CANSSM)
Caisse de Prévoyance et de Retirement des Personnel de la SNCF
Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP)