(EN) Scope of coverage of EHIC

On the basis of EHIC, all insured persons of other EU member states obtain health service on the same conditions as Croatian insured persons, in the scope laid down by the European legislative provisions. Therefore they are obliged to pay to certain health institutions the amount of participation (co-payment) in health care costs in cases when the CHIF’s insured persons would also have to pay it. On the basis of EHIC, foreign insured persons are entitled to health services that are necessary from a medical aspect, taking into account the nature of expenditures and length of the expected stay.

Emergency healthcare also includes benefits in kind that are necessary from a medical point of view, so that the insured person is not forced to return to the competent member state before the end of the planned stay to undergo the necessary treatment.