1.
An exemption from emergency room payment is granted to:
2.1
An insured individual who comes to the emergency room with a medical referral letter and/or with a financial commitment from a health fund (Form 17).
2.2
An insured individual who is hospitalized, even if he does not present a medical referral letter and/or Form 17.
2.3
A work accident victim who presents a certificate from his employer (Form BL/50) confirming that he suffered an injury at work.
2.4
A road accident victim who presents a police certificate concerning the accident.
2.5
A schoolchild who was injured at school or on a school trip ("school accident") and who presents a certificate from the school.
2.6
An insured individual who comes to the emergency room in the following cases:
2.6.1
Any new fracture.
2.6.2
Severe shoulder or elbow dislocation.
2.6.3
A wound requiring suturing or an equivalent joining procedure.
2.6.4
Aspiration of a foreign body into the respiratory tract.
2.6.5
Penetration of a foreign body into the eye.
2.6.6
Treatment for cancer.
2.6.7
Treatment for hemophilia.
2.6.8
Treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF).
2.6.9
A woman who has started labor pains, where a monitor test shows evidence of labor pains.
2.6.10
A person who was evacuated to the hospital by a MDA ambulance, from the street or another public area, following a sudden medical event.
2.6.11
Infants up to the age of two months with a sudden rise in temperature above 38.5 degrees Celsius.
2.6.12
An insured individual who suffers from chronic renal insufficiency and is under dialysis treatment.
An insured individual who is a victim of family violence or a sexual assault, in cases where the visit to the emergency room is shown after the fact to have been medically justified.
Translated by
The Shira Pransky Project