Health insurance is available to everyone in the Czech Republic, whether you are visiting for a few days or planning a long-term stay for tourism, work, or study.
Calculate price of your health insuranceEvery person who has permanent residence in the Czech Republic (i.e., even foreigners) is required by law to have health insurance in the Czech Republic.
An employee in the Czech Republic or a self-employed person in the Czech Republic can also be insured.
Every person who has permanent residence in the Czech Republic (i.e., even foreigners) is required by law to have health insurance in the Czech Republic.
Health insurance for such persons is established upon acquiring permanent residence in the Czech Republic and ceases upon the death of the insured person or her/his declaration of death or upon termination of permanent residence in the Czech Republic.
Calculate your insuranceA foreigner from countries outside the European Union (EU) / outside the European Economic Area (EEA) / from Switzerland, who does not have permanent residence in the Czech Republic, has the possibility to be included in the public health insurance system as:
Based on agreements between the Czech Republic and the USA, Japan, Turkey, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Tunisia, and Syria, foreign insured persons employed or doing business in the Czech Republic become participants in the Czech health insurance system. This also means that they must deregister from health insurance in their home country. A similar process applies in the case of an association agreement with Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and the state of Israel.
Calculate your insuranceChildren newly born to foreigners with long-term residence permits will be automatically included in the Czech health insurance system.
Children born in the Czech Republic, whose mother has a long-term residence permit in the Czech Republic at the time of birth, and whose the father does not have permanent residence, will be automatically included in the public health insurance system from birth for a minimum of two months, precisely until the end of the month in which they reach 60 days of age. For the child's further stay, it is necessary to obtain commercial health insurance unless the child acquires another form of residence permit.
The legal representative of the child is required by law to report the birth of the child to the health insurance company with which the mother or father of the child has an insurance contract on the day of the child's birth within 8 days from the date of birth. If the parents do not have health insurance in the Czech Republic, it is necessary to notify the General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic about the birth of the child.
