What a trip for treatment costs you

You pay at most kr 1.500 a trip

4 trips a calendar year

Work out what you actually pay to travel for a hospital appointment, what comes back, and what to bring when you claim it.

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If this is not your journey

Repeated journeys, past the four

For a serious illness there is no limit of four. The regulation names malignant disease, kidney failure, serious heart disease, serious illness in children, serious mental illness, serious problems in pregnancy, fertility treatment and dental treatment among the grounds. The money works the same way, but two things change. You need a «Skýrsla vegna ferðakostnaðar», the form a doctor or midwife fills in, and Sjúkratryggingar expect to have decided before you travel, except in an emergency. And flights are limited — «Endurgreiðsla flugferða takmarkast því við hámark tvær flugferðir á hverjum sjö dögum», at most two flights in any seven days, with the regulation asking you to use the sjúkrahótel in the treatment town to keep the number of trips down. A repeated journey means, as a rule, two journeys in four weeks or less.

Dialysis

In regular haemodialysis at least twice a week, Sjúkratryggingar pay 95% of an agreed taxi journey up to 100 km, and those journeys come on top of the four. The 100 km was 60 km until reglugerð 555/2025 raised it in May 2025. The consolidated text on island.is still shows the old number, so if anyone quotes 60 to you, the amendment is the answer.

Getting home at the weekend

If treatment keeps you away for 26 days or more, the regulation covers a journey home every other weekend. Under 18, every weekend.

Loftbrú comes first

Akureyri is inside Loftbrú, the state's air-fare discount for people living away from the capital area — postcodes 600 to 607 qualify. It takes 40% off the fare on up to six flight legs, three return trips, a year on scheduled routes to and from the capital area, and it excludes flights taken for business, which a hospital appointment is not. What neither scheme's published terms say is how the two fit together: whether Sjúkratryggingar work their two-thirds out on the discounted fare or the full one. Because your own share is capped either way it rarely changes what you pay, but it changes what comes back, so ask if the figure matters.

What a trip for treatment costs you

About these tools

The rules this uses

If this is not your journey

Repeated journeys, past the four

Dialysis

Getting home at the weekend

Loftbrú comes first

If someone travels with you

Somewhere to stay

What to bring

How to claim

Where to claim

Official pages

The regulation