Provision of non-medical temporary accommodation (hospital hotel)

Verified 26 October 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

What is meant by hospital hotel ? Healthcare facilities may provide non-medical accommodation before or after a hospital stay or treatment session. This applies to you if your health condition does not require hospital accommodation for your care and your home is far from the health facility. The device also exists for pregnant women living more than 45 minutes by car from the nearest establishment.

General case

It is the health institutions that can offer you this accommodation service temporary non-medicalized.

This benefit is programmed as part of the care pathway.

You have to have a medical prescription from a practitioner practicing in that institution.

This performance takes place before or after :

  • Hospital stay
  • Another treatment session.

This service is available to you if your state of health does not justify one of the following situations :

  • Continuous medical or paramedical supervision
  • Home Hospitalization
  • Heavy technical medical facility.

However, your condition should require repeated or specific care for a certain period of time.

Keeping you close to the health facility is necessary to at least one of the following reasons :

  • Your home is more than an hour's drive from the pick-up point. Accessibility conditions (climate, traffic) are taken into account
  • Temporary inadequacy of the housing or environment due to your state of health (e.g. temporary incompatibility between your state of health and the architecture or accessibility of the home)
  • Geographical or social isolation on your part. This isolation is assessed by taking into account the presence close to an entourage that can be mobilized to accompany you.

The non-medical temporary accommodation benefit is only available if you are self-sufficient or can be accompanied.

FYI  

Autonomy is assessed motor and cognitive. In case of insufficient autonomy, the possibility of mobilizing the presence of accompanying persons in temporary accommodation is taken into account.

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The provision of temporary non-medicalized accommodation shall hospital hotel may be carried out:

  • Within the health facility
  • In premises identified and separate from care and hospitalization areas
  • Outside of the health facility in accommodation facilities and close to the facility.

An agreement with a third party (e.g. a hotel provider) may be signed for this purpose.

General case

Temporary accommodation is scheduled as part of your care journey.

It may not exceed 3 consecutive nights without intervention. In the presence of an act or service of the establishment from which the prescription originates, the accommodation service may exceed 3 consecutive nights.

The provision of temporary accommodation before or after a hospital stay may not exceed 21 nights in its entirety, excluding hospital stay.

Temporary accommodation in connection with a treatment session (including radiotherapy or chemotherapy)

There is no time limit.

Patient transferred overseas or between overseas and metropolis

There is no time limit.

No care is provided in the temporary non-medicalized accommodation by the health facility.

However, there are 3 exceptions:

Rules and regulations You will receive full information on the characteristics of this service (examples: financial contribution, accommodation structure).

Your consent:

  • Is collected by any means, including in dematerialized form
  • Is valid until it is withdrawn
  • Addresses the temporary and non-medicalized nature of the accommodation and the absence of medical care and supervision by the health facility.

General case

Financing accompanying the generalization of the scheme is provided by the Health Insurance for any activity carried out between 1er January 2021 and December 31, 2023.

The amount of this package is fixed at €80 overnight and covers:

  • Accommodation costs
  • Accommodation costs of your accompanying person(s)
  • Meal

The potential cost of the service uncovered by the package financed by health insurance may:

  • You will be charged as well as any accompanying person
  • Or be covered by supplementary health insurance bodies under an agreement with the health institution.
You are uninsured in France

Fees are charged.

You then request reimbursement of all or part of the costs from your foreigner affiliation organization.

Pregnant women

The establishment first offers this accommodation to women who request it.

It is possible to ask the health facility if it has set up this type of accommodation.

General case

This accommodation can be offered if you are staying in a commune where the center is more than 45 minutes by car from the nearest establishment.

The conditions of accessibility (climate, circulation) may in certain cases be taken into account, taking into account the expected date of delivery.

In Guyana

This accommodation can be offered if you are staying in a commune where the center is more than 45 minutes by car from the nearest establishment.

Accessibility conditions (climate, traffic) may in some cases be taken into account.

Municipalities that do not have a road service are considered to be more than 45 minutes away from a maternity hospital.

General case

This temporary accommodation is for a period of 5 consecutive nights maximum before the expected date of delivery.

It's the doctor or the midwife who sets that date.

Please note

For medical reasons, this period may be extended until delivery.

Pregnancy at risk

This accommodation service can be offered throughout pregnancy.

It is the medical team that decides on its duration, within the limits:

  • 21 overnight stays (consecutive or not)
  • And 23 round trips for the entire pregnancy.
In Guyana

The medical profession may consider that this benefit can be offered throughout pregnancy.

To do this, you must have a continuous and main residence in Guyana:

  • From 6 months to the date of delivery
  • And located more than 45 minutes from an obstetric gynecology unit adapted to his health situation.

No care is provided in the temporary non-medicalized accommodation by the health facility.

However, there are 3 exceptions:

It is possible to share your room with one or more accompanying persons, taking into account the capacity of the accommodation facility.

The provision of temporary non-medical accommodation may be carried out:

  • Within the health facility
  • In premises identified and separate from care and hospitalization areas
  • Outside of the health facility in accommodation facilities and close to the facility.

An agreement with a third party (e.g. a hospital provider) may be signed for this purpose.

Rules and regulations You will receive full information on the characteristics of this service (examples: financial contribution, accommodation structure).

Your consent:

  • Is collected by any means, including in dematerialized form
  • Is valid until it is withdrawn
  • Addresses the temporary and non-medicalized nature of the accommodation and the absence of medical care and supervision by the health facility.

Accommodation services

Medicare pays for these accommodation costs if you are in any of the following situations :

  • Social Insurance
  • Beneficiaries of State medical assistance (AME)
  • Beneficiaries of social security in Mayotte
  • Members of a social security scheme of a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland or any other country pursuant to an agreement.

This support is €80 per night.

Warning  

If you are not in one of these situations, you will be charged for the service.

Transport

General case

The transport costs are covered by the Health Insurance to get to:

  • At this temporary accommodation
  • And prenatal examinations done between the 8the and 9e months of pregnancy.

This is done within the limit of 3 round trips.

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Pregnancy at risk

The transport costs are covered by the Health Insurance to get to:

  • At this temporary accommodation
  • And prenatal examinations done between the 8the and 9e months of pregnancy.

This is done within the limit of 23 return trips.

The CPAM: titleContent or the MSA: titleContent must give its prior agreement.

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