Public health insurance covered by state
- Last Updated: 02 February 2023
The Slovak Republic pays contributions for compulsory health insurance for:
- a dependent child (if the child meets the conditions of the categorized system of mandatory public health insurance)
- a pensioner under the Health Insurance Act
- a beneficiary of parental allowance
- a person who has reached retirement age and entitlement to pension has not yet begun
- a person who is disabled and his entitlement to a disability pension has not yet begun
- a person in custody or serving a prison sentence
- a person who has been placed in a social care facility by court order, or resides in a social services facility year-round
- a foreign student who studies in Slovakia under an international agreement by which the Slovak Republic is bound
- a beneficiary of financial contributions for childcare
- a person who personally gives proper daily care to a child under the age of six years
- an employee’s spouse who conducts civil service abroad, or an employee who works under contract for the public's interest abroad
- a person who takes care of a severely disabled citizen, who is dependent according to an expert’s opinion; or someone who takes care of a close person older than 80 years who has not been placed in a social services or health care facility (care of such persons shall be proven by an affidavit)
- a person who provides personal assistance to a citizen with severe disabilities under a special regulation
- a person in receipt of wage compensation, illness, nursing or maternity benefits under a special regulation
- a person who receives welfare benefits or a welfare benefit contribution (for example, a foreign national with a tolerated stay in the Slovak Republic), and a person who is jointly assessed, if he doesn’t have any income under a special regulation
- a person who is listed in the register of job seekers
- a foreign national who is detained in the Slovak Republic
- a refugee (a person who has been granted asylum, not an asylum seeker)
- a person who works for a church, religious community and charity and does not receive income from this work or from any other activities in addition to the exempt income
- a person who is in receipt of health security and receives wage compensation for police service during his temporary inability to perform civil service, and wage compensation of a professional soldier who cannot perform military service due to illness or accident, sickness or maternity under special legislation
- a PhD student in full-time study, if the total length of his doctoral studies exceeds the standard length of study of a full-time doctoral and he has not yet earned a PhD degree or has not yet reached 30 years of age
- a scholarship holder under a programme of the Government of the Slovak Republic, a programme implemented on the basis of an international treaty, a programme of the European Union, or a scholarship programme of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic, if the scholarship has been awarded to him/her for a period of more than one month.
The state also provides health care (beyond health insurance) also to the following categories of foreign nationals:
- asylum seeker
- an applicant for temporary asylum
- a foreign national who has been granted temporary asylum
- a foreign national who has been granted subsidiary protection (in some cases)
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