{"entity":{"id":"icelandic-health-insurance","kind":"institution","name":"Sjúkratryggingar Íslands","aka":["Icelandic Health Insurance","Sjúkratryggingar","SÍ"],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Sjúkratryggingar: role and values (in Icelandic)","url":"https://island.is/s/sjukratryggingar/hlutverk-og-gildi"},{"label":"Sjúkratryggingar: medicine costs (in Icelandic)","url":"https://island.is/s/sjukratryggingar/lyfjakostnadur"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["landspitali","icelandic-medicines-agency"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Reykjavík","country":"IS","lat":64.13,"lng":-21.764,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://island.is/s/sjukratryggingar","programs":["Medicine cost sharing over 12-month periods","Sickness benefit","Cross-border health insurance"]},"route":"/institutions/icelandic-health-insurance/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"landspitali","kind":"institution","name":"Landspítali, the National University Hospital of Iceland","route":"/institutions/landspitali/"},{"id":"icelandic-medicines-agency","kind":"institution","name":"Lyfjastofnun","route":"/institutions/icelandic-medicines-agency/"}]}}