Health insurance for a foreigner to apply for a visa or residence permit
Health insurance for a foreigner
Do you need health insurance to apply for or renew a temporary residence permit or visa? ERGO offers health insurance to a foreigner:
- who is staying in Estonia on the basis of a residence permit or visa;
- who applies for or extends a temporary residence permit or visa.
Insurance covers
Digital clinic
A digital clinic is a safe environment where general practitioners and family physicians are easily accessible concerning health issues in real time and 7 days a week.
Outpatient family medicine and specialised medical services
In the case of complaints arising during the period of insurance cover, it covers the necessary visit fee to the family physician and medical specialist, the costs of examinations, diagnostics, analyses, and medical procedures prescribed by the doctor.
Hospital treatment
Covers the costs of hospitalisation due to illness that occurred for the first time during the insurance period and after the end of the waiting period.
Prophylactic health checks
Covers the costs of medical examinations and examinations carried out at the insured person’s request. In addition, the costs of medical examinations necessary for monitoring illnesses incurred before the conclusion of the insurance contract (including extension of the prescription) are indemnified.
Prescription medications
We will indemnify the costs of prescription medicines registered in the European Union and prescribed by our doctor.
Additional cover for dental treatment
Covers the costs of dental treatment and hygiene services, and examinations prescribed by a dentist.
Vaccination
We will indemnify the costs of vaccination.
Returning to home country
We will indemnify medically justified expenses related to your return to your home country.
Technical aids
We will cover the costs of technical aids, such as glasses, wheelchair, crutches.
Insurance covers
A digital clinic is a safe environment where general practitioners and family physicians are easily accessible concerning health issues in real time and 7 days a week.
In the case of complaints arising during the period of insurance cover, it covers the necessary visit fee to the family physician and medical specialist, the costs of examinations, diagnostics, analyses, and medical procedures prescribed by the doctor.
Covers the costs of hospitalisation due to illness that occurred for the first time during the insurance period and after the end of the waiting period.
Covers the costs of medical examinations and examinations carried out at the insured person’s request. In addition, the costs of medical examinations necessary for monitoring illnesses incurred before the conclusion of the insurance contract (including extension of the prescription) are indemnified.
We will indemnify the costs of prescription medicines registered in the European Union and prescribed by our doctor.
Covers the costs of dental treatment and hygiene services, and examinations prescribed by a dentist.
We will indemnify the costs of vaccination.
We will indemnify medically justified expenses related to your return to your home country.
We will cover the costs of technical aids, such as glasses, wheelchair, crutches.
