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<strong>KCE</strong> Reports 133 Special Solidarity Fund 71<br />

• The French healthcare system recognizes three categories of chronic<br />

diseases: 1) Chronic diseases that are listed as ‘ALD 30’, or diseases that<br />

require an extend period of treatment and an expensive treatment. The list<br />

of these 30 chronic diseases are <strong>de</strong>fined and adapted by the Minister of<br />

Health; 2) Chronic diseases that are not listed as ‘ALD 30’, but that are<br />

recognised as a chronic disease as they require a period of treatment that is<br />

exceeding 6 months as well as an expensive treatment; 3) Polypathologies,<br />

or in case a patient suffers from more than one disease, resulting in a state<br />

of invalidity and requiring a period of treatment that is exceeding 6 months.<br />

• Temporary authorisation (ATU) for the use of new drugs outsi<strong>de</strong> of the<br />

framework of clinical trials, without Marketing authorisation (MA) in France,<br />

w<strong>het</strong>her they benefit or not from a MA abroad, at individual patient level (at<br />

the request of the prescribing physician) or homogeneous group (cohort)<br />

level (at the request of the pharmaceutical firm) can be granted by<br />

AFSSAPS in a very short time laps. Solely drugs that are used for the<br />

treatment of serious or rare diseases, for which there is no other treatment<br />

available and cost-benefit analysis of the treatment was conducted, with a<br />

positive result are eligible for ATU.<br />

• Article 56 of Social Security Finance Law enables the exceptional and<br />

temporary reimbursements of certain drugs, products or treatments for<br />

rare or chronic diseases, if there is no other, appropriate alternative<br />

available within the conventional reimbursement system and if the product<br />

or treatment has been subject to a recommendation or advice of the Haute<br />

Autorité <strong>de</strong> Santé (HAS)<br />

7.2 THE NETHERLANDS<br />

An introduction of the Dutch healthcare system and the organisation of the healthcare<br />

provision can be found in annex. 9.15.<br />

7.2.1 Reimbursement of medicines<br />

7.2.1.1 Extra muros vs. intra muros<br />

In or<strong>de</strong>r to get an i<strong>de</strong>a about the reimbursement of medical care, one should make the<br />

distinction between healthcare provision intra muros (within the hospital) or extra<br />

muros (outsi<strong>de</strong> the hospital). Within the context of medicines, intra muros is not<br />

necessarily being consi<strong>de</strong>red as period of hospitalisation. Many medicines, in particular<br />

orphan drugs or expensive drugs, are prescribed and provi<strong>de</strong>d by hospital specialists<br />

without the patient being hospitalised.

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