Lithuania has become the 12th country that started to exchange the e-documents related to payment for treatment in the Member States of the European Union via the special system.

The especially favourable conditions have been created in Lithuania in the last 17 years to get preventive checks-up for diseases that are the major death causes in our country, i.e., vascular diseases and cancer.

The specialists of Klaipėda territorial health insurance fund note that recently more and more residents have been ordering the European Health Insurance Card online – the situation is different than before the quarantine.

The Seimas made the amendments in the budget of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund for 2021, specifying the revenues, expenses, and the planned remaining funds. The need for changes was induced by the topicalities of management of coronavirus infection.

The rhythm and peculiarities of the activities of the health insurance fund, similarly to the entire health care system, were determined by the coronavirus infection in 2020.

The residents often ask the Nathional Health Insurance Fund to explain whether they have to pay for disposable special clothes and other disposable materials used for magnetic resonance imaging and for the copy of radiologic examination images.

The National Health Insurance Fund has declared that expenses of new – myoelectric prosthesis of the forearm (below the elbow) will be compensated from the budget of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund.

The patients who have vision problems are asking Siauliai Territorial Health Insurance Fund what medical services may be compensated from the budget of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund.

Despite the significant human and financial resources required to fight coronavirus, trends in health care service delivery raise careful optimism over the four months of this year.

Recently, health insurance funds have been receiving a number of questions from residents regarding primary mental health services and emotional assistance.

From Tuesday, foreign nationals will be vaccinated against COVID-19 (coronavirus infection).

Lithuanians living abroad are well acquainted with the health services provided in Lithuania, according to an annual survey of foreign Lithuanians.