What is state medical assistance (AME)?
Verified 01 April 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Government medical aid (AME) is a mechanism for foreigners in an irregular situation to gain access to care. It allows you to be exempted from the advance payment of fees. It is granted subject to residency and means requirements. We present you with the information you need to know.
Warning
THE SOUL is not applicable in Mayotte.
General case
You must reside in France for more than 3 months.
You must not have not had a residence permit for more than 3 months.
You must collect resources not exceeding certain ceilings.
These ceilings are different if you live in the metropolis or in the Dom.
The resources taken into account are those of the last 12 months.
Composition of the hearth | Annual resource ceiling | |
|---|---|---|
Metropolis | DOM | |
Single person | €10,339 | €11,507 |
2 people | €15,508 | €17,260 |
3 people | €18,609 | €20,712 |
4 people | €21,711 | €24,164 |
Per person extra | €4,135 | €4,603 |
The minor children receive the AME without delay even if you do not meet the condition of more than 3 months in France.
If your stay in France regularizes, you will be entitled to health insurance taking into account your professional activity or your stable and regular residence.
The AME entitles the support at 100% your medical and hospital care within social security rates.
You don't have to advance the costs.
Dependants (person you live with as a couple, children under the age of 16, or up to the age of 20 if they continue their studies) may also benefit from the MEA.
The following medical expenses are not supported :
- Technical procedure, examination, medicinal product and product necessary for the performance of a reproductive health procedure
- Medical service drug made low reimbursed to 15%
- Thermal cure.
However, for minors, medical expenses are covered at 100% in any case.
Warning
Certain care and treatment non-urgent cases shall not be dealt with until 9 months after admission to the MEA for any new major beneficiary or for a beneficiary who has not benefited from the MEA for more than one year.
Application file
You have to distinguish according to your status.
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General case
You must fill out the cerfa form n°11573:
Request for medical assistance from the State (AME)
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided according to your situation.
You must come and deposit your 1er request from the sickness insurance fund of your place of residence.
The file can be filed in all the branches of the credit union.
However, in a few departments, the file may only be submitted to agencies dedicated upon receipt of AME applications. These departments are:
- Aisne
- Ariege
- Expensive
- Guarded
- Paris
- Loire-Atlantique
- Haut-Rhin
- Seine-Saint-Denis
- North
- Pas-de-Calais.
FYI
The obligation to submit the file personally at the reception desk makes it possible to check the physical presence of the applicant in the territory when submitting his application.
You can also deposit this file in a public service home authorized by the health insurance organization.
You can then submit this file to a France Services structure that offers you, less than 20 minutes from home, advisors accompanying you in all your daily administrative procedures.
Who shall I contact
The 1era The application may also be submitted to a health facility or a health care access point (PHSI) in which you or a member of your household is cared for.
In this case, the institution shall forward the application file, within 8 days, to the health insurance organization.
Under certain conditions, the 1era The application may also be submitted to a health center or nursing home or an association.
Isolated minor
The application may be submitted to a health insurance body by
- Or a structure for the care or support of such persons
- An association defending the rights of users of the health system or people in precarious situations.
Cerfa Form 11573 must be completed:
Request for medical assistance from the State (AME)
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided.
Person with reduced mobility
The 1era the application can be submitted to the following services:
- Health Insurance Organization
- Health care facility in which the applicant is cared for
- Communal or intercommunal social action center of your place of residence
- Health and social services of the department of residence
- Associations or non-profit organizations approved for this purpose by decision of the State representative in the department.
Cerfa Form 11573 must be completed:
Request for medical assistance from the State (AME)
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided.
Person under guardianship or guardianship
Your guardian or curator can deposit the 1era request from the following services
- Health insurance body which carries out the investigation by delegation of the State
- Health care facility in which the applicant is cared for
- Communal or inter-communal social work center of the place of residence of the person concerned
- Health and social services of the department of residence
- Associations or non-profit organizations approved for this purpose by decision of the State representative in the department.
Cerfa Form 11573 must be completed:
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General case
You must fill out the cerfa form n°11573:
Request for medical assistance from the State (AME)
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided according to your situation.
You must come and deposit your 1er request from the sickness insurance fund of your place of residence.
The file can be filed in all the branches of the credit union.
However, in a few departments, the file may only be submitted to agencies dedicated upon receipt of AME applications. These departments are:
- Aisne
- Ariege
- Expensive
- Guarded
- Paris
- Loire-Atlantique
- Haut-Rhin
- Seine-Saint-Denis
- North
- Pas-de-Calais.
FYI
The obligation to submit the file personally at the reception desk makes it possible to check the physical presence of the applicant in the territory when submitting his application.
You can also deposit this file in a public service home authorized by the health insurance organization.
You can then submit this file to a France Services structure that offers you, less than 20 minutes from home, advisors accompanying you in all your daily administrative procedures.
Who shall I contact
The 1era The application may also be submitted to a health facility or a health care access point (PHSI) in which you or a member of your household is cared for.
In this case, the institution shall forward the application file, within 8 days, to the health insurance organization.
Under certain conditions, the 1era The application may also be submitted to a health center or nursing home or an association.
Isolated minor
The application may be submitted to a health insurance body by
- Or a structure for the care or support of such persons
- An association defending the rights of users of the health system or people in precarious situations.
Cerfa Form 11573 must be completed:
Request for medical assistance from the State (AME)
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided.
Person with reduced mobility
The 1era the application can be submitted to the following services:
- Health Insurance Organization
- Health care facility in which the applicant is cared for
- Communal or intercommunal social action center of your place of residence
- Health and social services of the department of residence
- Associations or non-profit organizations approved for this purpose by decision of the State representative in the department.
Cerfa Form 11573 must be completed:
Request for medical assistance from the State (AME)
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided.
Person under guardianship or guardianship
Your guardian or curator can deposit the 1era request from the following services
- Health insurance body which carries out the investigation by delegation of the State
- Health care facility in which the applicant is cared for
- Communal or inter-communal social work center of the place of residence of the person concerned
- Health and social services of the department of residence
- Associations or non-profit organizations approved for this purpose by decision of the State representative in the department.
Cerfa Form 11573 must be completed:
The form contains a leaflet indicating the documents to be provided.
Please note
Social services and non-profit associations or organizations approved for this purpose by the prefect of department can help you in your approach.
Your CPAMCPAM : Primary health insurance fund inform you of its decision not later than 2 months after the deposit of your request.
If you have not received a reply within this period, your request will be refused.
If your application is accepted, you are summoned to come and withdraw your AME admission card. This card is to be presented to the healthcare professionals you consult.
FYI
If you reside in France in an irregular manner and you do not have AME (you do not meet the conditions or your application is pending), you can benefit from urgent care at the hospital.
Ask your CPAM.
The MEA shall be granted for a one-year duration from the date of submission of the application.
If you challenge a refusal to grant the MEA, you can make a appeal courtesy of your CPAM within 2 months of receipt of the decision.
You can also apply to the administrative court of your place of residence within 2 months of the decision date.
Asylum seeker
You cannot take advantage of the MEA.
However, you will benefit from the universal health protection (Puma) after 3 months of residence in France.
During these 3 months, you can be treated under the urgent care device.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For more information
Primary health insurance fund (CPAM)If you live in Paris and want to be helped in your steps
Paris - Center d'action sociale de la ville de Paris (CASVP)
National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam)
Solidarity Health Complementary Fund
Solidarity Health Complementary Fund
Ameli.fr