Keyword: treatment

EU and EEA countries are liable to reimburse treatment provided in Finland. Other countries may reimburse treatment provided in Finland if it is provided in their national legislation. The treatment provider may charge you for treatment costs beforehand as an advance payment. The amount of this payment may not exceed the estimated treatment costs. You […]

Your European Health Insurance Card, identification or passport must be valid during your treatment. If you do not have a European Health Insurance Card or another certificate of right to treatment, you will generally be liable to pay the costs of any treatment provided in Finland. Your insurance company may cover the costs if you […]

A client fee may be charged to patients in Finnish public health care under the client fee legislation. Instead of the actual fee provided for in the Act or Decree on Client Charges in Healthcare and Social Welfare, you can be charged the actual costs of the treatment in the following cases: However, even if […]

You can receive reimbursement for travel costs, if Kela will mainly reimburse travel costs according to the cheapest means of travel and to the nearest place of treatment. If you have been granted prior authorisation for treatment in another EU or EEA country, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, your travel costs will be reimbursed up […]

Receiving reimbursement usually requires that corresponding treatment would have been provided in Finland’s public health care. The reimbursed treatment must be included in the service choices of the Finnish health care system. The Council for Choices in Health Care, established under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, determines the service choices for health care. […]

A client fee is usually charged for the use of health care services in Finland. The fee is determined in several different ways based on whether you use public or private health care services.