Medical/Dental Cost In Italy

Don't worry about the quality of the dental care. If you are thinking that the dental care will be really inexpensive it won't be. For that Croatian dentists advertise in the local newspapers. You will find good medical and dental care. I paid for an MRI through a private clinic and that was unbelievably inexpensive (2019) and my ER treatment was free.

Thank you so much for the responses! I absolutely have no worries about the availability or quality of care. I was just wondering if anyone had any specific recommendations for an Italian clinic/hospital/dental practice. I’ll be staying in the Piazza Del Popollo neighborhood and either walking or taking public transportation. I already discovered the U.S. Embassy list, but thanks for sending anyway. Glad to know it’s a well used resource. Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

miuccia, what a lovely and informative post! That was very interesting about the history of hospitals in Italy—I had no idea.

I have had accidents and injuries while traveling. The cost for treatment was always much, much less than in the U.S.
I needed surgery on my badly cut arm in an ER in Nafplion, Greece and it only cost 3€.
I had house calls in Rome several times following an accident and it was around 60€.

Many public hospitals haven’t yet figured out how to charge foreign Non-EU tourists for the full price, since they don’t have a pricing or accounting mechanism to do so, as a result they often charge just the copay they would normally charge an Italian of the highest income group, and that copay is not large at all. If you go to a doctor or private clinic, which generally charge private Italian patients (with or without health insurance), then they will have a fee schedule, dentists will likely fall in this category, although there are also dental clinics within the National Health System. The charges for these professional services are not as high as in the US, not even close. Checked with a high school buddy who is an oral surgeon and has a dental practice in Florence, that a root canal prices vary depending if the tooth has one root or more roots (like a molar). A root canal to a molar, which can have up to 4 canals, would cost between 300€ and 400€, while a canine or incisor would not cost more than 200€. It might seem high but if you come without insurance to the dental clinic of the hospital system in California where I work, we will charge you about 3 to 4 times those amounts for a root canal. If you need a crown, that is a different story, but the costs in Italy will also be about 1/4 to 1/3 of what it would cost in the US.