The Dutch healthcare system is known as one of the best in the world. If you work in The Netherlands, you are required to apply for basic health insurance (even if you have a part-time job or paid internship).
From the moment you have a Citizen Service Number (in Dutch: Burger Service Nummer - BSN), you have four months to apply for health insurance in the Netherlands. You risk a fine if you wait too long. The basic insurance plan is already quite extensive and is more or less equal for all health insurance companies. This insurance package usually covers essential medical care, such as:
- Visits to and treatments by a general practitioner;
- Pharmaceuticals;
- Hospital care and other medical care, operations, and treatments performed by doctors and physicians, such as surgeons, pediatricians, cardiologists and oncologists;
- Physiotherapy (only for some chronic conditions);
- Dental care (until the age of 18);
- Pregnancy and birth care;
- Emergency transport;
- Emergency medical care abroad (according to Dutch standards and tariffs).
Boskalis has a corporate company health insurance (currently CZ), which is most beneficial to be used at least for the first year. If you participate in the group health insurance scheme and take out the recommended supplementary insurance package, you qualify for an additional gross allowance of €300 annually (pro rata). For more information, please contact HR Shared Services.