The Austrian state is responsible for the health care system and its financing. You can inform yourself about this and other topics from the health-care sector here.
In the first section you find information about the structure of the Austrian health care system and how it works.
You can inform yourself about the framework of health insurance in Austria and how the expenses of a doctor’s visits are settled in the second section.
Furthermore, read some advice for your doctor’s visit in Austria.
There are lists of panel doctors* in each particular health insurance available. You can also find information on the Internet. Please take notice of the subsequent collection of links.
* Panel doctors have contracts with particular health insurances. This means, that the costs of treatment are directly settled by the doctors with a health insurance respectively. In most cases, patients do not have any further expenses. However, there are exceptions, for example for civil servants.
You can find a list of all hospitals in Austria in the following collection of links.
Medical treatment entails costs. However, there are several organisations, in which doctors treat their patients without expenses.
You can find organisations, in which you find free medical treatment in the following collection of links.
Links:
- Federal Ministry of Health
- Austrian Social Insurance
- Austrian Medical Chambers (Search for doctors in Austria)
- amber-med.at (Free medical treatment)
- spitalskompass.at (List of all Austrian hospitals)
- barmherzige-brueder.at (Free medical treatment Bermherzige Brüder Vienna only)
- caritas-steiermark.at (Free medical treatment in Marienambulanz Graz)