Visit fee

A visit fee is an additional fee charged from the insured person when providing a health service that is covered by the Health Insurance Fund. It is the right of the health care provider to charge a visit fee. Restrictions on charging visit fees are established in the Health Insurance Act.

You can find information about visit fees on the website of the Health Insurance Fund. Information about current visit fees must be available and visible to patients in every medical institution.

The Health Insurance Fund will not reimburse a paid visit to a specialist if an appointment is chosen outside the waiting list. In this case, the patient waives services funded by the Health Insurance Fund and pays the full amount for both the visit and their treatment to the medical institution themselves.

If a person does not have health insurance, they must pay for health services themselves. Each medical institution has established its own price list. Therefore, they should ask the specific medical institution for more information.

The availability of a family physician is considered the most important, which is why patients do not have to pay a visit fee when visiting a family physician. An appointment with a specialist is more expensive, and the visit fee has been set so that people do not go to a specialist unnecessarily, but instead start solving their health concerns with their family physician.

A family physician may not charge a visit fee, except in the case of home visits (up to 5 euros). Read more about the service fees applicable to the provision of health services on the website of the Health Insurance Fund.

No. The visit fee for one home visit may not exceed 5 euros, regardless of the number of insured persons per home visit.

If the family physician charged more than 5 euros, please provide the details of the physician and a receipt proving payment along with an application to the Health Insurance Fund.