Indirect cross-border healthcare in Veneto Region

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 from the relevant local health authority in certain cases. To find out what healthcare services are available, Essential Levels of Assistance - LEA. 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 in Veneto Region.

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

Regional Contact Point, set up with Decree no. 75 of 27 January 2015 is based at Azienda Ospedale Università di Padova. In particolar, with regard pediatric oncological services, it operates at UOC Oncoematologia Pediatrica and with regard to adult oncological services, it operates at Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV) .

Forms
Application for prior authorisation for cross-border healthcare and application for reimbursement of healthcare costs.

Tables
The fees for specialist outpatient services – visits and examinations – and hospital services are set out below.

Regional rates - Hospital assistance
Regional rates - Outpatient care

Citizens not registered with the Italian national health service (SSN)
Citizens who come to Veneto Region for treatment may go to accredited public or private
facilities. Find the list of relevant local health authorities.

Further details
- Decree no. 75 of 27 January 2015. Establishment of the Veneto Regional Contact Point.
- Legislative Decree 4 March 2014, no. 38 relating to the implementation of Directive 2011/24/EU concerning the application of patients' rights relating to cross-border healthcare.

- Legislative Decree 38/2014: ‘Implementing Directive 2011/24/EU’

- Directive 2011/24/EU

- Prime Ministerial Decree of 12 January 2017:‘Determination and updating of the essential levels of care