Claim procedure for the FSS plans
As customer of the foreign student and researcher plan, you have to follow carefully the procedures here under.

You have free choice of a practitioner or a specialist.
- Go to the doctor or specialist (without calling Swisscare)
- The doctor will send you a bill or if you pay cash, the receipt of payment and the bill
- Pay the bill
- Collect your bills up to the franchise amount
- Fill out the claim form (download here) only once for all your bills
- Send the original bills and claim form to Swisscare, address on the claim form

With prescription, you can go to every pharmacy
- Go to the pharmacy (only with doctor prescription)
- Pay your medicine and request the payment receipt
- Collect your all bills (doctors, pharmacy...) up to the franchise amount
- Fill out the claim form (download here) only once for all your bills
- Send the original bills and claim form to Swisscare, address on the claim form

An ambulatory treatment in the hospital is considered as a doctor visit or specialist visit. The hospital can charge you in advance with a deposit. We recommend for non emergency cases, to go to a general practitioner or a specialist otherwise
- Go to the hospital
- If you paid in advance, request the deposit and bill detail
- Collect all your bills (doctors, hospital, pharmacy) up to the annual franchise
- Fill out the claim form (download here)
- Send the original bills and claim form to Swisscare, address on the claim form

A stationary treatment is generally cause you have a serious illness or injury. A stationary treatment is a treatment that require a minimum stay in the hospital for a night.
- Go the the hospital (attention, public and university hospital only)
- Show them your insurance card
- You don't have to pay the hospital directly and also no deposit is required
- The hospital send the bill directly to Swisscare

The maternity and pregnancy (delivery) claim procedure is very simple.
- Collect all your bills monthly and send it to Swisscare
- You don't have to pay your bills in advance
- Only pharmacy medicine must be paid and claimed to Swisscare
- No franchise is applied on the maternity
- Send all your bills to Swisscare address on the claim form (download here)
- Send us the claim form once per month with the collected bills





