I. – Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 6147-14, a Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire de Moyennes may be formed by public or private health establishments, medico-social establishments mentioned in article L. 312-1 of the Code de l’Action Sociale et des Familles, health centres and maisons de santé, and natural or legal persons practising as self-employed medical professionals. It must include at least one healthcare establishment, except in the case provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 6133-7.
Natural or legal persons practising a profession other than medicine and other organisations involved in the grouping’s activity may be members of the grouping with the authorisation of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.
A natural or legal person who pursues a profit-making aim by carrying out their main activity as a supplier, distributor or manufacturer of healthcare products, or as a service provider, may not be a member of a Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire.
II. – When, in application of 4° of article L. 6133-1 and article L. 6133-1-1, a groupement de coopération sanitaire de moyens exploits the authorisations held by one or more of its members, only health establishments, army hospitals and the natural or legal persons mentioned in article L. 6122-3 may be members of this groupement.
III. – When, in application of article L. 6223-2, a medical biology laboratory is operated in the form of a health cooperation group, this group may not include among its members a self-employed healthcare professional or a company practising a healthcare profession.