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.

Who shall I contact

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.

Who shall I contact

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.

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

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.
Who shall I contact

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:

Field of activity or company

Competent body for sickness insurance

Sailor

The National Institution of Naval Invalids (Enim)

Mining personnel

National Autonomous Fund for Social Security in Mines (CANSSM)

Personnel of the Autonomous Port of Bordeaux

Provident fund for the staff of the autonomous port of Bordeaux

SNCF staff

SNCF provident and pension fund (CPR SNCF)

RATP staff

SNCF provident and pension fund (CPR SNCF)

EDF/GDF staff

Health insurance fund for the electrical and gas industries (Camieg)

Staff of the Banque de France

Caisse de proviance santé de la Banque de France (CPM Banque de France)

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.