Latvian health care insurance is based on the principle of residence.
State compulsory health insurance resources are formed by the fixed part of the income tax (28,4%) and state budget subsidy.
The above-mentioned resources guarantee the coverage of expenses for health care services in the volumes defined by the state or the minimal volume of health care services.Currently all the citizens of the Republic of Latvia and its residents, as well as citizens of other countries, who have received residence permission, receive guaranteed medical assistance budgeted by the state.
You can get health care services at state, regional and private medical institutions.
It is possible to get health services budgeted by the state only in the medical institution that has the agreement with the Health Compulsory Insurance State Agency.

Health care is organized according to the following structure:

Outpatient (Ambulatory) Care - health services provided without the patient being admitted, and no overnight stay in a hospital is required. The primary health services fall under this category: the services of ambulatory care centres, hospital outpatient departments, family doctors, physicians. This type of service is also called primary outpatient health care.

Inpatient Care - health care that you get when you stay overnight in a hospital. Inpatient care services include emergency, acute care, and first aid medical services (highly complex and skilled services).

When the patient is getting medical services, he has to pay a certain amount of the service value – patient liability. This is a fixed payment defined by the state, and which the patient has to reimburse to the medical institution for rendered health care services.

Health Compulsory Insurance State Agency LV/ EN