# Haute Autorité de Santé

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## TL;DR

France's health technology assessment authority, whose Transparency Committee rates the added clinical benefit of each new cancer drug and so sets its price and reimbursement.

## Summary

Created in 2004, the HAS is an independent public authority that evaluates medicines, devices and procedures for reimbursement and produces clinical guidelines. Its Commission de la Transparence assigns each drug a clinical benefit score (SMR) and an improvement in clinical benefit rating (ASMR I-V) that drive price negotiations with the Comité Économique des Produits de Santé; France's early access programme (accès précoce, formerly ATU) lets patients receive promising cancer drugs before marketing authorisation, with HAS deciding eligibility. HAS also accredits hospitals, runs the screening programme guidance and participates in the EU joint clinical assessments beginning with oncology in 2025.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: HAS; Commission de la Transparence
- City: Saint-Denis, FR
- Type: government
- Website: https://www.has-sante.fr

## Sources

- HAS: https://www.has-sante.fr

## Connected records

- companies: [UNICANCER](https://onco.cc/companies/unicancer/)
- institutions: [European Medicines Agency](https://onco.cc/institutions/ema/), [Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss / IQWiG](https://onco.cc/institutions/g-ba-iqwig/), [Gustave Roussy](https://onco.cc/institutions/gustave-roussy/), [Institut Curie](https://onco.cc/institutions/institut-curie/), [ISPOR (The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research)](https://onco.cc/institutions/ispor/), [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence](https://onco.cc/institutions/nice/)
- terms: [EU HTA Regulation (EU) 2021/2282: joint clinical assessments](https://onco.cc/terms/eu-hta-regulation/), [France: early access (accès précoce), formerly ATU](https://onco.cc/terms/france-early-access/), [Real-world evidence](https://onco.cc/terms/real-world-evidence/)
- people: [Jean Lessi](https://onco.cc/people/jean-lessi/), [Lionel Collet](https://onco.cc/people/lionel-collet/)
- bottlenecks: [Most of the world has almost no cancer care](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/), [Prices and value](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-drug-pricing/)

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