Healthcare in Italy

For health in Italy more generally, see Health in Italy.
Healthcare in Italy
Total value of Italian Healthcare (including budget for Ministry of Health and Italian National Health Service) € 185 Billion (2025)

The Italian healthcare system is one of universal health care largely financed by government through a Beveridge model. The system aims to provide health as a fundamental right, in following with article 32 of the Italian Constitution. Life expectancy is the 4th highest among OECD countries (83.4 years in 2018) and the world's 8th highest according to the WHO (82.8 years in 2018). Health care spending accounted for 9.7% of GDP in 2020.

The Italian state has run a universal public healthcare system since 1978. The public part is the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, which is organised under the Ministry of Health and administered on a devolved regional basis, in consequence of the 2001 Italian constitutional referendum.

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