Foreign patients’ treatment in Finland

If the customer has a municipality of residence in Finland, they will receive all public health care services for the municipal resident’s client fee. If they do not have a municipality of residence in Finland, determine the reason and duration they are staying in Finland and ask them to present a certificate of entitlement to medical care.

Every customer is always entitled to receive the emergency treatment they need in Finnish public health care, regardless of their country of origin and reason for staying in Finland.

If the customer coming from abroad has a municipality of residence in Finland, they are entitled to public health care services and non-emergency treatment in the same way and with the same client fee as other municipal residents. The client may also be entitled to public health care services under, for example, Finnish national legislation, EU legislation or international medical care agreements, even if they do not have a municipality of residence in Finland. The place of domicile is updated through the population register system. In unclear situations, the client may clarify the municipality of residence issue with the Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV)avautuu uuteen ikkunaan.

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