Providing Urgent Medical Care to foreign citizens
during their temporary stay in Serbia


Foreign citizens, as well as Serbian citizens who live and work abroad, are entitled to receive urgent medical care.

Citizens of the countries with which Serbia has concluded an international agreement on health insurance receive urgent medical care in Serbia on the basis of health insurance certificate issued in their home countries. Foreign citizens exercise their right to urgent medical care based on certain forms (if such have been prescribed), European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or on the basis of a document proving their insurance coverage in their home country.

Citizens of the following countries exercise their right to urgent medical care on the basis of a prescribed form: Belgium (Certificate BE/SRB 111), Netherlands (Certificate N/Y-111), Italy (Certificate: IT-7), France (Certificate: SE 21-05 SRB/FR 111), Montenegro (Certificate MNE/SRB-111), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH/SRB-111), Macedonia (certificate: RM/SRB 111), Romania (certificate: Y/R 11), Tunisia (TN/SRB 111) and Turkey (TR/SRB 111).

Citizens of the following countries exercise their right to urgent medical care based on the European Health Insurance Card: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Luxembourg,Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

Citizens of Poland and Great Britain exercise their right to urgent medical care based on the certificate of insurance issued in their home country.

In case citizens of the above countries do not have a necessary certificate with them, there is a possibility of providing them with urgent medical care and the certificate is to be requested from their home country insurance organization subsequently.

Foreign citizens who are chronic or acute patients (undergoing dialysis or insulin treatments) need special certificates in view of receiving adequate medical services free of charge in Serbia.

Citizens of the countries with which Serbia has not concluded an international agreement on health insurance pay for urgent medical services received during their temporary stay in Serbia. Upon return to their home country, they may be reimbursed the said amounts by their insurance companies.

Sector for Internal Audit Affairs

This Sector is in charge of conducting internal audit of business systems and sub-systems, programs, activities and procedures in the National Health Insurance Fund.

Sector Director: Erol Fetahović

Tel:  +381 11 2053 629

Department for Commissioning Healthcare Services

The Department for Commissioning Healthcare Services engages in the activities of commissioning healthcare activities and conducts healthcare related activities, drafts deeds and model contracts, implements DRG system and performs many other activities.

Department Director:

Tel.: +381 11 2053803

NHIF Committees

The Rulebook on the Criteria, Method and Procedure of Listing/Delisting Medicines in/from the List of Reimbursed Medicines under Compulsory Health Insurance Scheme prescribes that applications for listing the medicines in the List of Reimbursed Medicines with complete supporting documentation are filed to the National Health Insurance Fund. The applications are considered by the Central Expert Committee for Medicines (CEC). In the procedure of deliberating on the application, the CEC uses the opinion of a relevant expert sub-committee for medicines for areas defined by the ATC classification of medicines and the opinion of the Pharmacoeconomics Committee.

Acting Director General

 

Sanja Radojević Škodrić, MD

Republic Fund of Health Insurance
Jovana Marinovića 2
11040 Belgrade
Telephone: +381 11 2053830
Fax: +381 11 2645042; +381 11 2688420
e-mail: public@rfzo.rs