
Doubling of deductibles: the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie Council opposes
As announced by French President Emmanuel Macron on January 16, 2024, healthcare deductibles and co-payments will be increased over the course of the year. The ministries concerned have submitted three draft decrees to the CNAM Board for prior approval.Created in...

Deductible amounts will soon double
The government has decided to double the amount of the various medical deductibles, which have never been increased since their creation. The new amounts are due to come into force gradually, by mid-June 2024.France is the world's third-largest spender on healthcare,...

Cades warns of Social Security deficit
On December 12, 2023, Caisse d'amortissement de la dette sociale (Cades) Chairman Jean-Louis Rey presented the institution's 2023 balance sheet. Tasked with financing and extinguishing the accumulated debt of the French Social Security system, Cades' mission has been...

Re-articulating and strengthening the review-programming-monitoring cycle
Since the 2010s, Niger's healthcare system has suffered from leadership and coordination problems. Since 2021, reforms supported by WHOthe P4H focal person and all partners, have revitalized programming practices, strengthened leadership and improved data analysis and...
CNLE opinion on complementary health insurance
Every year, the Social Security Department (DSS) produces a report on complementary health insurance (C2S). In accordance with the law, the National Council for Policies to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion (CNLE) is asked by the Government to issue an opinion on...
Increase in the cost of consultations with general practitioners
At the 3rd plenary session of conventional negotiations with self-employed doctors, the Assurance Maladie said it was ready to invest in a global agreement on attractiveness, access to care, quality and relevance of care.At this 3rd multilateral session, the Assurance...
Ten-year palliative care strategy
Following the submission of the report by the Citizens' Convention on the End of Life in April 2023, the President of the Republic announced the creation of a ten-year palliative care strategy and a bill on the end of life. The expert report, published after six...
Review of defragmentation of publicly subsidized health insurance schemes
This document provides a review of efforts undertaken in four Indian states and several countries on the defragmentation of their health schemes. The document discusses health insurance reforms in various countries, with a focus on defragmentation of multiple health...

Following the adoption of the first Public Health Law, Mongolia kicked off the year of public health promotion
The first Law on Public Health Care and Services was approved by the Great Khural (Parliament) of Mongolia and came into effect on April 1st, 2024. Consequently, the Ministry of Health declared this year as the "Year of Public Health Promotion" and organized an...

The National Institute for Medical Assistance to accelerate the march towards CSU
Niger's INAM, created in 2022, promotes free health care and health financing reform to achieve universal health coverage. Supported by the CSU Leadership Group, it operationalizes the policy of free healthcare with increased funding, aimed at reducing inequalities in...
Health Accounts Report 2018-2019
Health Accounts (HA) enable systematic, exhaustive and consistent monitoring of financial flows in a country's healthcare system over a given period.This 2018 and 2019 Health Accounts report, which is the third of its kind in Cameroon, was drawn up under the overall...
Report on health accounts 2021
The Health Accounts constitute an international accounting framework for systematically tracking financial flows in favor of health.The results of Health Accounts 2021 come at a time when the country is gradually recovering from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on...
Act on Public Health Insurance in Czech Republic
The Act regulates public health insurance, the scope and conditions under which medical services are covered, the method of determining prices and reimbursement of medicinal products by health insurance, and the method of determining the payment of medical devices...
Development strategy of the Social Health Insurance Fund of Kazakhstan for 2020 – 2025
Development strategy of Non-commercial Joint Stock Company “Social Health Insurance Fund” of Kazakhstan for 2020 – 2025 is available at Social Health Insurance Fund website. The attached document reflects the latest revisions accepted by the decision of the Board of...

Round Table in DRC on the financing of Universal Health Coverage
With the support of the World Bank, the Conseil National de la Couverture Santé Universelle (CNCSU) launched the National Forum on Health Financing and Universal Health Coverage in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.There's a lot you need...