Subsidy for providing essential medical care to uninsured patients

Are you a healthcare provider and do you provide essential medical care to patients without healthcare insurance? Or are you uncertain about whether a patient is insured? Then you can apply for a subsidy for emergency and non-emergency healthcare. The subsidy will reimburse you for the healthcare costs you made.

When do you qualify?

You can apply for the subsidy for providing essential medical care to uninsured patients, if you meet the conditions, among others:

• You provide essential medical care, covered by basic health insurance, to an uninsured person.
• The patient is a Dutch national or is a national from an EEA country, Switzerland, Aruba, Curaçao, or St. Maarten.
• The patient is unable to pay for the treatment themselves.
• You apply for the subsidy no later than 12 months after the quarter in which you treated the patient.
• You have a Service of General Economic Interest (dienst van algemeen economisch belang, DAEB) contract with the CAK (in Dutch).

Read all conditions on CAK’s website (in Dutch).

Do you provide healthcare to uninsured aliens without right of residence or a residence permit, refugees from Ukraine with a citizen service number (BSN), or asylum seekers? Then you can make use of other schemes (in Dutch).

How to apply?

You can apply for the subsidy for providing essential medical care to uninsured patients to the Central Administration Office (CAK, in Dutch).