EHIC or PRC can be used in contracted healthcare institutions and contracted healthcare workers in the country of temporary stay. These institutions and workers have to be a part of the compulsory health insurance system.

Yes. EHIC or PRC can be used in the same manner regardless of whether you are staying in another Member State of the EU, EEA countries or Switzerland on private business, attending college, business trip, temporary work to which you have referred by your employer or other reason.

PRC is issued in the event of theft, loss or EHIC or in the case when you are left without an EHIC for some other reason.

EHIC or PRC shall be issued to you by your competent institution for health insurance.

Based on the EHIC/PRC a person is entitled to necessary healthcare, in regards to the nature and the length of the expected stay, where the necessity is assessed by the attending, contracted, physician in the respective Member state to whom the person has turned to for help. EHIC or PRC covers the costs of...

EHIC or Provisional Replacement Certificate (PRC) can be used in another Member State of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area countries (EEA - Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) or in Switzerland.