Your health insurance cover
In the EU, the country responsible for your social security and your health cover depends on your economic status and your place of residence โ not your nationality. Make sure you understand which country’s social security system should cover you. Find out more about social security cover abroad.
If you’re unsure about your rights and want to check before you get treatment, contact a National Contact Point for healthcare. There’s at least one in each EU country, and they can tell you whether you will be entitled to reimbursement, and if there are any reimbursement ceilings .
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/health/when-living-abroad/health-insurance-cover/index_en.htm
European Health Insurance Card
What is the European Health Insurance Card?
A free card that gives you access to medically necessary, state-provided healthcare during a temporary stay in any of the 27 EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, under the same conditions and at the same cost (free in some countries) as people insured in that country.
Cards are issued by your national health insurance provider.
Important โ the European Health Insurance Card:
- is not an alternative to travel insurance. It does not cover any private healthcare or costs such as a return flight to your home country or lost/stolen property,
- does not cover your costs if you are travelling for the express purpose of obtaining medical treatment,
- does not guarantee free services. As each countryโs healthcare system is different services that cost nothing at home might not be free in another country.
Please note: when you move your habitual residence to another country, you should register with the S1 form instead of using the EHIC to receive medical care in your new country of habitual residence.
https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=559&langId=en
