Returning to Lithuania: What do you need to know about compulsory health insurance?



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The specialists of the Department of Population Service of Panevėžys ICD (GAS) inform the media in a press release: Lithuanians who have returned to live in Lithuania must first declare their place of residence in our country. Then consider how to get compulsory health insurance (PSD): get a job right away, work with a business certificate or an individual activity certificate, look for a job after registering with the Employment Service or, for example, have a father pull out PSD to get a job. If, after returning from abroad, you have been out of work for some time and do not have public health insurance, PSD contributions must be paid independently.

Access to medical care is possible only after obtaining a PSD and enrolling in one of the primary health care institutions, i. and. Choose a family doctor. Before registering, make sure that the medical institution of your choice (polyclinic or family medicine center, clinic) has a contract with the territorial health insurance fund (ICD) for the provision and payment of services. Then you will not have to pay for services paid from the PSDF budget.

First of all, you must declare your place of residence in our country.

Also find out what services and in which cases they can be paid. In all cases, the attending physician and the administration of the medical institution must inform the population about the services paid for. The list of services paid for with PSDF funds and the list of services and fees paid must be published at the medical institution. If you are not sure whether you are required to pay for services rendered, please contact the medical institution administration first, and if you cannot find out, health insurance funds.

There are Lithuanian citizens who work and pay taxes abroad, but they also pay PSD contributions in Lithuania and receive free treatment there. Often these individuals then submit documents to Sodra proving that they have paid health insurance contributions at the same time in another EU country, EEA or Switzerland, and Sodra, upon receipt of such documents and the applicant’s request for reimbursement of PSD contributions paid in Lithuania, reimbursed. However, the reimbursement of PSD contributions makes the person no longer retroactively insured. If free health care services (with the exception of emergency medical care) were provided to you during the health insurance revocation period, the person is deemed to have caused harm to the PSDF budget and must compensate you. To prevent this from happening, it should be noted that a person may be insured for PSD in only one country.

For employed and salaried residents, the PSD in Lithuania takes effect on the day the basis for paying PSD contributions arose. The PSD of the self-contributing population will take effect from the date the PSD contributions began to be paid or from the date the PSD debt was paid, if any, and the contribution for the current month . The PSD is valid until the last day of the paid month.

It is important to remember that the contribution for the current month must be paid before the last day of that month. If this is not done, the PSD expires. True, after the expiration of the PSD, the person for another 1 month. (additional) you are entitled to receive health care services, reimbursable medicines, medical aid (MPP) paid from the PSDF budget. This month the PSD, and with it the listed services, is provided on loan on the condition that at the end of the month the resident takes out insurance: pay the PSD contribution, get a job, register with the Employment Service or acquire the right to state insurance for other reasons, etc. If the condition is not met by the end of the month, and the person receives reimbursable medical services, medications, MPP within an additional month, he is charged a debt for PSD contributions and the cost of medical care provided. This is a damage to the PSDF budget to be covered. Unpaid PSD contributions must also be covered.



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