Health Insurance
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Before you leave your country
EU CITIZEN? Check Rules for EU citizens.
NON-EU CITIZEN?
When you will apply for a Student Visa, Italian Embassies and Consulates accept SISSA letter stating that you will underwrite a health insurance upon your arrival in Italy.
Payment of the insurance
Being a non EU/EEA citizen, in order to apply for the Permit of stay and to obtain a basic health assistance, you have to underwrite either a private insurance or to register and pay for the National Health System (SISSA will refund both private or National health insureance). SISSA suggests and supports you with the second option.
Register with the Italian SSN
The cost for registration to the National (Regional) Health Care system (SSN), is € 700,00 per calendar year (the registration expires on December 31st of each year) You will be assigned a General Practicioner. Some medicines and all exams are subject to the payment of a fee (maximum for exams is 36,15 Euros).
Paying via F24 form
You can collect the F24 form in any post office; please always check with the Students' Secretariat for the payment of the health insurance.
F24 Online Payment Instructions
Required documents
You have to submit the following documents to the Students' Secretariat, we will forward the documents to the proper Distretto.
Scheda di iscrizione volontaria al Sistema sanitario nazionale (Form for voluntary registration to the SSN) filled in and signed. Here's the instruction to fill it in.
Permit of stay OR expired permit + the receipt issued by the Post office when you submitted your permit of stay documents (called "assicurata"). Assicurata has to be less-than-6-months-old.
Passport
The original receipt of the payment
Please remember that you must pay the registration fee before sending us the documents.
The SSN card covers the same period of your permit of stay.
How to get the refund
Once you are registered into the SSN, you can apply for the refund, which is provided by SISSA. In particular you have to visit this webpage, login using SISSA credentials by clicking on the yellow button, and fill in the online form. The form is then automatically sent to the Students' Secretariat and to protocollo@sissa.it.
Additional information about the Italian Health Care System can be found at the Welcome Office Trieste webpage.
REMEMBER to check the deadline of your health card in order to renew it when needed. It can happen 2 or more times a year.
