Latvijas Republikas Veselības Ministrija

 

  Cesu street 31 k-3, (6th entrance)
  Riga, LV-1012
  tel. +371 67043700
  fax +371 67043701
  e-mail vnc@vnc.gov.lv

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* Health care system is based on the residence principle.

 

* Negative list of benefits – the state pays for all services except those that are excluded from the scope.

 

* Health care benefits are available at the state, municipality and private inpatient and outpatient health care institutions.

 

* A patient should pay a contribution in order to receive health care.

 

* Patient from the state budget and his own co-payments is provided with:

  • General practitioner and his team provided health care and preventive visitation once a year
  • Specialist’s provided health care
  • Laboratory analysis and medical manipulations with the family doctor’s or specialist’s referral;
  • Health care in the day stationary
  • Home care
  • Assistance of emergency medicine brigade
  • Emergency medical assistance in the hospitals and trauma centres
  • Health care in the emergency medical hospitals by providing more specialists support and necessary examinations
  • Care in the hospitals after treatment phase in the emergency medical hospitals, as well as in cases of exacerbation of chronic diseases
  • Rehabilitation after the treatment phase in the emergency medical hospitals or dynamic surveillance of the medical rehabilitation
  • Reimbursed medicines and medical devices

 

 

 

 



Health Payment Center
Cesu street 31 k-3, (6th entrance)
Riga, LV-1012
tel. +371 67043700
fax +371 67043701
e-mail vnc@vnc.gov.lv

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