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What a procedure costs, and who pays which part of it
What a procedure costs, and who pays which part of it: every country here publishes a statutory price list of health services with a code and a euro price…
This launch guide maps the topic, the source base and the practical questions. Check the linked official authority before acting on a rule, deadline, price or safety requirement.
What this guide covers
Every country here publishes a statutory price list of health services with a code and a euro price, and none of them is readable. One page per service: what it is in plain language, the official code, the published price, what the fund pays, what you pay, whether a referral is required, and what the same thing costs privately. One focus is "An MRI of the knee: the state price, the referral rule and the private alternative". Ship the 150 most-searched codes first — a full list runs to a few thousand.
How to use it
Use What a procedure costs, and who pays which part of it as a map of the process: identify the situation, check which country or authority owns the rule, and confirm the current version before a deadline or application.
The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.
Search vocabulary in four languages
Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.
| Language | Example phrase |
|---|---|
| Estonian | MRT uuringu hind haigekassa |
| Finnish | magneettikuvaus hinta yksityinen |
| Russian | сколько стоит МРТ в Эстонии |
| English | how much does an MRI cost in Estonia |
Evidence and provenance
The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.
Source: Tervisekassa tervishoiuteenuste loetelu (published in Riigi Teataja), the Finnish wellbeing-area and Kela tariffs, NVD manipulāciju saraksts (LV), VLK base prices (LT) — all official, all citable. · checked 2026-09-09
Source names are preserved even where an authority changes its web address. No figure is added to this launch page unless it is already present in the cited source description or can be computed from a named dataset.
Scope and boundaries
/labs prices private blood panels; /healthtourism compares countries for treatment travel. This is the state price list, service by service, in four languages.
Connected TempoLife guides
The following paths are the intentional hand-offs named in the brief. They keep adjacent subjects separate while making the next useful reference easy to find.
Procedures
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
Labs
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
Why it belongs on TempoLife
/procedures and /labs.
Frequently asked questions
What does this guide cover?
Every country here publishes a statutory price list of health services with a code and a euro price, and none of them is readable. One page per service: what it is in plain language, the official code, the published price, what the fund pays, what you pay, whether a referral is required, and what the same thing costs privately. One focus is "An MRI of the knee: the state price, the referral rule and the private alternative". Ship the 150 most-searched codes first — a full list runs to a few thousand.
What evidence does it use?
Tervisekassa tervishoiuteenuste loetelu (published in Riigi Teataja), the Finnish wellbeing-area and Kela tariffs, NVD manipulāciju saraksts (LV), VLK base prices (LT) — all official, all citable.
Where does this guide stop?
/labs prices private blood panels; /healthtourism compares countries for treatment travel. This is the state price list, service by service, in four languages.
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