Health care in Iceland

Non-EEA/EFTA citizens must have health insurance from an insurance company, licensed to operate in Iceland, valid for six months and covering medical costs of ISK 2,000,000 as a minimum. More information on the government website.

Every doctor´s visit is paid full price but up to the limit of 50.000 ISK which is the personal liability stated in the insurance policy terms. When the cost has exceeded the 50.000 ISK limit you can start claiming the insurance company by submitting receipts for already paid health cost service.

Please bring your passport and European Health Insurance Card when you need to see a doctor, with the card you are guaranteed to pay the minimum fee offered to everyone insured by the public health system in Iceland. This is an option only meant for a short stay and can therefore only be meant for the transition period when health insurance rights are being transferred between countries.

The European Health Insurance Card is a free card that proofs your health insurance in the home country and gives you access to medical assistance, under the same conditions and at the same cost as people insured in any of the 28 EU member states and the four EFTA states Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland and Lichtenstein.

Those without the European Health Insurance Card can not prove their home country insurance and need therefore to pay the maximum fee for a doctor's visit until their insurance rights from home country have been transferred to Iceland.

Icelandic Health Insurance - contact: international@sjukra.is