Indirect cross-border healthcare in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

Last updated 04.10.2024 by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

Indirect healthcare is provided for by the European Union to guarantee all citizens the right of freedom of choice of the place of care in any country in the European Union.

Citizens registered with the Italian national health service (SSN) 

Citizens registered with the Italian health service must request prior authorisation (external link) from the relevant local health authority in certain cases. To find out what healthcare services (external link) are available, click here [LEA of the Province of Bolzano]. The following services are excluded: long-term care, allocation of and access to organs for transplants, and public vaccination programmes against contagious diseases.

Beneficiaries of cross-border health services must pay the costs of the healthcare upfront. The amount reimbursed will be equal to the fee charged in the region providing the care, net of any costs to be shared (patient’s contribution), if due.

In order to better ensure reimbursement of the benefit they wish to receive in the EU, healthcare beneficiaries can submit a request for prior verification to the local health authority to check whether, on the basis of the type of service, prior authorisation is required, and also to have find out how, when and what amount they will be reimbursed.

All requests are handled by the local health authority offices responsible for healthcare abroad. Find the local health authorities (external link) in in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.

The Ministry of Health has set up a National Contact Point (external link) providing patients with information to facilitate access to cross-border healthcare within the European Union.

Forms

• Application for prior authorisation for cross-border healthcare and application for reimbursement of healthcare costs (external link)

Tables

• Autonomous Province of Bolzano - fees for hospital admissions for acute cases and post-acute rehabilitation and long-term care
• Autonomous Province of Bolzano – outpatient specialist rates

Citizens not registered with the Italian national health service (SSN) 

Citizens who come to the Autonomous Province of Bolzano for treatment may go to accredited public or private facilities.
Find the list of relevant local health authorities (external link)

Further details

• Legislative Decree 38/2014: ‘Implementing Directive 2011/24/EU’ (external link)
• Directive 2011/24/EU (external link)
• Provincial law n. 7/2001, articolo 34/bis
• Prime Ministerial Decree of 12 January 2017:‘Determination and updating of the essential levels of care’ (external link)

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