#SFHS2615340AFrance Updates the Standard Agreement for Reimbursed Psychologist Sessions
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This order updates the standard agreement used between French health insurance funds and psychologists who take part in the publicly reimbursed psychological support scheme. The scheme covers sessions for patients over age 3 with mild to moderate psychological distress, within a care pathway. It affects self-employed psychologists, psychologists working in health centers or multi-professional health facilities, and mixed-practice psychologists. Participating professionals and their employers, where relevant, need to use the updated agreement to define how sessions are organized, priced, and billed to health insurance.
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Key Changes
- Updates the framework agreement for psychologists participating in the reimbursed psychological support scheme
- Clarifies that the scheme applies to patients over age 3 with mild to moderate psychological distress
- Covers self-employed, salaried, and mixed-practice psychologists, with separate agreements required for mixed activity
Obligations
What this law requires
Participating psychologists must enter into the updated standard agreement with the relevant French mandatory health insurance fund before providing reimbursed psychological support sessions under the Article L. 162-58 scheme.
Where a psychologist participates as an employee of a health center or multi-professional health facility, the employing structure must be identified in the agreement, including its FINESS number and address.
Participating psychologists must provide reimbursed psychological support sessions only within the defined care pathway for patients over 3 years old experiencing mild to moderate psychological distress.
Participating psychologists and, where applicable, their employing structures must apply the agreement’s rules on organization, pricing, and billing of psychological support sessions to health insurance.