Health Check - Health Prevention Review (HPR)

Verified 22 August 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

What is a Health Prevention Review (HPR)? This exam is for people aged 16 and over. It is primarily intended for those who are remote from the health care system. This exam lasts approximately 2 hours and is personalized taking into account your medical follow-up. EPS (formerly known as free health check) is fully covered by the Health Insurance. Here are some of the things you need to know.

A health prevention review (formerly free health check), can be offered if you are covered by the General Health Insurance Scheme (CPAM).

FYI  

If you belong to a other sickness insurance scheme, you can request the conditions to benefit from this exam.

You are priority if you put these 3 conditions :

  • You're 16 and older
  • You are far from the health care system and are in a precarious situation
  • You do not receive regular medical follow-up by a attending physician.

You are also a priority if you use less preventive devices (e.g. M'T Dents care).

Priority people for this review are:

  • Right holders inactive persons aged 16 years and over
  • Job seekers and their dependants
  • Persons covered by personal insurance and their dependants
  • Beneficiaries of a retirement or early retirement benefit and their dependants
  • Other inactive insured persons (e.g. students and pensioners not working in addition to their studies or retirement, men and women at home, persons unable to work) and their dependants
  • People at risk to their health.

Warning  

However, all social insured and those entitled to benefit from it.

The examination shall take place at a Social Security examination center or an approved center.

Please note

Preventive testing centers are not care centers. Thus, they do not provide care or prescriptions.

There is a distinction to be made between whether or not you are part of the general plan.

General Scheme (CPAM)

Your health insurance fund may invite you, on its own initiative, to register for a health prevention examination.

You can also contact her yourself to ask to take advantage of it.

The caisse will first send you a registration request to fill out, then a summons specifying:

  • The date
  • The place
  • And the time of the exam.

A medical questionnaire is attached to the convocation and must be brought on the day of the examination. You must fill it out carefully, as it helps guide the examinations you will take and possibly trigger additional examinations.

Warning  

The registration mode appears adding your postal code to the top right of the ameli page. Once your postal code has been specified, the examination will be explained.

Register for a Health Prevention Exam (HPC)

Agricultural Scheme (AMM)

You can contact your agricultural social security to request this exam.

Who shall I contact

Yes, the content of health examinations varies depending on:

  • Your age
  • Sex
  • And your risk factors.

This examination allows you to register or re-register in a health path linking care with prevention and support.

The Health Prevention Review is an opportunity to:

  • To take stock of your health
  • To ask questions to a medical team confidentially
  • To be informed and referred, in conjunction with the treating physician, to the care facilities.

Screening and screening as well as health information are carried out.

Health information

This review shall include the following time and points:

  • Information on health rights
  • Care Path
  • Interaction time with health professionals (e.g. dentist)
  • Information on various topics (e.g. addictions, tobacco, overweight, obesity, physical activity)
  • Accompaniment for various procedures (e.g. aid schemes for the acquisition or renewal of a health complementary, answers to questions on the vital card, help in declaring your attending physician, issues related to My health space).

Tests and screening actions

During this examination, various actions may be company in particular :

  • Blood sample
  • Urinalysis
  • Auditory test
  • Cardiopulmonary test.

FYI  

The prevention of cardiovascular disorders, the prevention of falls risks and participation in organized cancer screening are among the themes of the Senior SPE.

Conduct of the examination

Depending on the centers where it is practiced, it can take place in 1 or 2 stages.

Tests may vary depending on the following:

  • Elements of the medical questionnaire that you have completed
  • And risk factors specific to your situation.

A final interview will allow you to take stock of your health and if necessary to plan for additional tests. Indeed, at the end of this examination, the doctor discusses with you the follow-up to be given (examples: attending doctor, tobacco specialist).

An appointment with a specialized social worker can also be scheduled in case of difficulties in the financial support of exams or care to come.

Please note

Health Insurance dedicates a page to the terms and conditions for to receive individual financial aid.

The results are transmitted to you and your attending physician if you wish and if you have one.

In practice, the examination lasts about two hours.

This review is free.

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