Question 7788 — diseases

Summary

In January 2017, the Ministry of Health implemented a plan to combat Lyme disease and other tick-transmitted pathogens. The objectives of this plan are to strengthen prevention, and to improve and standardize patient care by updating recommendations and organizing specialized consultations for patients suffering from diseases transmitted by ticks. The High Authority of Santé has already published recommendations for good clinical practice allowing all doctors to manage the different forms of the disease in a harmonized manner across the national territory. The General Directorate of Health is working, in conjunction with regional health agencies, to set up specialized centers for patient care. The diagnosis of Lyme disease is primarily based on clinical criteria, with biological results providing additional arguments: current treatment recommendations take this fact into account and are likely to be updated according to evolving knowledge. Registration on the list of long-term illnesses (ALD) is a prerogative of the national health insurance fund, which remains particularly attentive to the situation of people sick. Generally speaking, any patient suffering from a serious form of an illness or a progressive or disabling form of a serious illness, involving prolonged treatment of a foreseeable duration of more than six months and particularly expensive therapy can benefit from exemption from the co-payment, under a so-called off-list ALD.

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