#SANS0622660AOrder of June 26, 2006 on Reimbursable Medicines and Health Products
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This law sets guidelines for prescribing reimbursable medications and health products in France. It requires prescriptions for certain drugs and medical products to be written on a special form, which ensures that they meet specified standards before reimbursement. This affects healthcare providers, pharmacists, and patients dealing with long-term conditions by clarifying how medications should be documented and reimbursed.
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Key Changes
- Introduces a special prescription form for reimbursable drugs and products.
- Reduces or eliminates patient financial contributions for long-term conditions.
- Ensures prescriptions meet specific therapeutic guidelines for reimbursement.
Obligations
What this law requires
Healthcare prescribers must write prescriptions for reimbursable exception medicines and health products on a specific form called 'ordonnance de médicaments ou de produits et prestations d'exception' that conforms to a model established by ministerial order.
Prescriptions for exception medicines must include all mentions required by articles R. 5132-3 and R. 5132-4 of the French Public Health Code, and stupefacient medicines remain subject to special prescription rules under articles R. 5132-29 et seq.
Prescribers must attest on the special prescription form that the prescription conforms to the indications and conditions of use specified in the therapeutic information sheet (fiche d'information thérapeutique).
Prescribers must deliver the patient copy of the therapeutic information sheet to the patient and attest to this delivery on the special prescription form, if such a patient copy exists.
Pharmacists, suppliers, and healthcare establishments must retain the final volet (copy) of the special prescription form for medicines, products, or services they dispense.