# Sjúkratryggingar Íslands

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## TL;DR

Iceland's public health insurer. It pays towards doctors' fees, medicines, aids and sickness benefit, and the share a person pays for medicines falls as their spending over 12 months rises.

## Summary

Sjúkratryggingar Íslands is Iceland's public health insurer, at Vínlandsleið 16, Reykjavík. Its stated role is to ensure access to health care for all regardless of means, to promote cost-effective health services, and to purchase health care in a targeted, professional way with transparency about quality, results and cost. Its pages cover primary care and doctors' costs, aids and hearing aids, nutrition, medicine costs, sickness benefit and cross-border cover; for medicines, the share an individual pays falls as their spending on medicines over each 12-month period rises. The coordinates are the OpenStreetMap point for Vínlandsleið 16.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Icelandic Health Insurance; Sjúkratryggingar; SÍ
- City: Reykjavík, IS
- Type: government
- Website: https://island.is/s/sjukratryggingar

## Sources

- Sjúkratryggingar: role and values (in Icelandic): https://island.is/s/sjukratryggingar/hlutverk-og-gildi
- Sjúkratryggingar: medicine costs (in Icelandic): https://island.is/s/sjukratryggingar/lyfjakostnadur

## Connected records

- institutions: [Landspítali, the National University Hospital of Iceland](https://onco.cc/institutions/landspitali/), [Lyfjastofnun](https://onco.cc/institutions/icelandic-medicines-agency/)

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