Legal tip 1376. Healthcare to foreigners in Spain
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 @ 8:05 PM
Pubnlic Health care in Spain guaranteed to persons who hold the status of insured person
Who are insured persons?
Those who are:
- Employed or self-employed worker affiliated to Social Security
- Pensioner of the Social security system.
- Beneficiary of any other periodic provision of Social Security, including the provision and the allowance for unemployment or other of similar nature.
- Already exhausted the benefit or allowance for unemployment or other benefits of a similar nature, are unemployed, does not credit his condition of insured by any other title and reside in Spain.
Foreigners with permission to reside in Spanish territory have the same legal regime than community or assimilated foreigners.
Foreigners not registered or authorized as residents in Spain, are entitled to receive medical assistance only in the following ways:
- In emergencies related to serious illness or accident, until the situation of medical discharge.
- In assistance to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
In any case, foreigners under 18 years of age receive health care under the same conditions as Spaniards.
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