Information on health services for foreign students

Arranging health services for foreign students studying in Slovenia

As foreign students you are included in the Slovene health system via the below stated options.

• foreign students from the countries of the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, who generally have a European Health Insurance Card or a certificate that replaces that card and have the right to emergency or necessary health services in Slovenia, which they can claim from providers in public health system;
• foreign students from countries with which bilateral social security agreements have been concluded (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Australia): they have, in accordance with the forms issued by the competent institutions in their countries, which they usually submit at the OE ZZZS, which issues them a document for the exercise of emergency health services in Slovenia, the right to exercise emergency health services with providers in the public health system.
• Foreign students coming from third countries (America, Turkey, Canada, etc.), ie countries that are not subject to the European acquis and with which bilateral social security agreements have not been concluded, which would regulate the field of health care and are not included in compulsory health care insurance in accordance with point 14 of Article 15 of the ZZVZZ, and in the event that there is a suspicion or they actually fell ill with COVID-19, they are self-paying in the exercise of health services.

The text is translated and adapted from the Ministry website on health services for foreign students.

Please, contact your lecturers when you miss lectures or tutorials due to illness. In case of COVID you need to inform the faculty via the ŠIS system.

In case of illness emergency contact the emergency clinic (or tourist clinic) in Lucija. As long as you are not included in the Slovenian health insurance system, you are still entitled to emergency services. COVID-19 is also one of the emergency services.

As COVID-19 is an infectious disease in accordance with the Infectious Diseases Act, health services related to this disease are among the emergency health services covered by compulsory health insurance. This means that in the case of medical indications, ie if there is a suspicion that they are ill or actually ill, the above-mentioned foreign students have the right to claim emergency medical services on the basis of documents if they have submitted them to a provider (European Health Insurance Card). , certificate in the case of EU countries, EEA, Switzerland) or in the case of bilateral agreements on the basis of a document issued to them by OE ZZZS. In emergencies, insured persons from countries with which bilateral agreements have been concluded may also claim emergency health services directly from health care providers in the public health system. When claiming emergency or necessary health services, they are equated with Slovenian insured persons, which means that they are subject to the same rules and procedures as Slovenian insured persons.