# Caisse nationale de santé

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## TL;DR

Luxembourg's national health insurance fund for people working in the private sector. It reimburses care and medicines and approves some medicines that need its authorisation before they are paid for.

## Summary

The Caisse nationale de santé is responsible for two branches of Luxembourg's social security: sickness and maternity insurance, and long-term care insurance. It manages benefits for all insured people in the private sector and for state manual workers; three separate funds cover public sector employees. Insured people send it their paid medical bills for reimbursement, and it validates prescriptions and issues prior approvals for some treatments, devices and certain medicines that need authorisation. The Registre National du Cancer lists the CNS among the sources of its data.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: CNS; National Health Fund, Luxembourg
- City: Luxembourg, LU
- Type: government
- Website: https://cns.public.lu

## Sources

- CNS: health insurance in brief (in French): https://cns.public.lu/fr/assure/droits-demarches/bases-bonnes-pratiques/assurance-maladie-bref.html
- Registre National du Cancer: patient page (in French): https://www.rnc.lu/fr/a-propos/patients/

## Connected records

- institutions: [Centre François Baclesse (Luxembourg)](https://onco.cc/institutions/centre-francois-baclesse-luxembourg/), [Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg](https://onco.cc/institutions/centre-hospitalier-de-luxembourg/), [Institut National du Cancer, Luxembourg](https://onco.cc/institutions/inc-luxembourg/), [Registre National du Cancer (Luxembourg)](https://onco.cc/institutions/registre-national-du-cancer-luxembourg/)

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