The medical assistance minimum is financed fully from the State budget.
In Latvia, the medical assistance minimum includes the following health care services:
- Emergency medical assistance
- Primary health care services provided by a general practitioner
- House visits by a general practitioner to:
- children aged up to 18 years
- persons with a Group I disability
- persons over 80 years old
- incurable persons
- persons sick with influenza during a seasonal outbreak, and others
- Visits to specialised medical practitioners (with a GP’s referral)
- Preventive examinations:
- annual: e.g., blood pressure, skin examination, examination of the stomach by touch
- at a specified age: e.g., cholesterol level check at the age of 40
- Laboratory tests and diagnostic examinations (with a GP’s referral)
- State-organised cancer prevention tests
- Vaccination:
- vaccination as per vaccination calendar
- vaccination against influenza
- COVID-19 vaccination
- Compensated medicinal products and devices
- Birth assistance, including:
- prenatal care for a pregnant woman
- postnatal care for a woman and the newborn
The State-paid medical assistance minimum is provided to:
- citizens of Latvia
- non-citizens of Latvia
- persons with a permanent residence permit in Latvia
- stateless persons (who have received such status in Latvia)
- refugees and asylum seekers
- detained persons
- persons entitled to state mandatory health insurance