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Cover and billing

10 guides on this theme

What French statutory health insurance covers, what remains payable, the documents required and the special cases (long-term conditions, top-up cover, direct billing). Amounts and conditions always link to the official source: only those are authoritative and they can change.

  • Cover and billing

    Palliative care at home: what gets organised, and by whom

    Staying at home to the end has to be prepared: symptoms anticipated, prescriptions written in advance, equipment in place before it is needed, numbers that answer at night. Here is the real organisation, without euphemism or drama.

    Written by Rabah Slimani · · 3 min read

  • Organising care

    Home nursing service, hospital-at-home or private nurse: who does what

    Three French schemes deliver care at home, with different prescribers, delays and funding. Here is how they genuinely differ, how to move from one to another, and what changes in practice for the patient.

    Written by Rabah Slimani · · 3 min read

  • Cover and billing

    Chronic wounds at home: what the nurse does, week by week

    A wound that has not healed after six weeks becomes a chronic wound. Here is what home care actually involves: assessment, protocol, monitoring, warning signs and the exact role of everyone involved.

    Written by Julie Martin · · 3 min read

  • Cover and billing

    Insulin-treated diabetes: what a nursing visit changes

    Injection, blood glucose, feet, hypoglycaemia alerts: the exact role of the home nurse for a person on insulin, and what stays in the hands of the patient and the doctor.

    Written by Rabah Slimani · · 3 min read

  • Cover and billing

    Home infusion and IV antibiotics: what actually happens

    IV line, implanted port, pump, intravenous antibiotics: what home infusion really involves, what is monitored, what should raise the alarm and who steps in when something goes wrong.

    Written by Julie Martin · · 3 min read

  • Coordination

    Hospital discharge: arranging the nursing handover at home

    What the practice asks for, what it guarantees and within what deadlines, so a hospital discharge becomes home care with no gap: the call, the documents, the first visit, the supplies, the written report.

    Written by Rabah Slimani · · 3 min read

  • Cover and billing

    Vaccination at home: what a nurse can do

    Since vaccination competencies were widened, nurses may administer several vaccines without a prior prescription. What that means in practice when leaving home is difficult.

    Written by Rabah Slimani · · 4 min read

  • Cover and billing

    The nursing care assessment: what actually happens at home

    For a dependent person, home nursing is funded by needs covered rather than by individual acts. Here is how the assessment is carried out, what it changes for you, and what it does not.

    Written by Julie Martin · · 4 min read

  • Organising care

    How home nursing works in France

    Who prescribes, who treats, who pays, who coordinates: the full chain between patient, doctor, nursing practice, health insurance, laboratory and hospital, explained without jargon.

    Written by Julie Martin · · 3 min read

  • Cover and billing

    Home nursing care: what French health insurance covers

    Prescription, sector 1, direct billing, top-up cover: the billing route explained plainly, without coding jargon.

    Written by Rabah Slimani · · 4 min read

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