Payments
In the future, the FSHS payment will NOT be collected as part of the Student Union’s membership fee. Instead, all students entitled to use the services are responsible for making the payment for each academic term themselves in Kela’s e-service. The FSHS expansion has been taken into account in the Student Union’s membership fee for the academic year 2020–2021: no fee has been collected for the FSHS’s services for spring 2021.
The health care fee for higher education students in 2021 is €35,80 per academic term, adding up to €71,60 for the academic year. The fee is a tax-like charge: it is mandatory for all students registered for attendance. At the same time, the FSHS will stop collecting separate appointment fees.
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You can make the payment here starting at the beginning of December.
Please note that an unpaid fee will lead to a reminder from Kela for which it collects a late fee of €5. If it remains unpaid even after the reminder, the fee can be withheld from student aid and, ultimately, referred to the enforcement authorities.
If you cannot use Kela’s e-service, further information will be provided Kela’s website during December.
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Who can use the FSHS’s services?
All students completing a basic degree in universities and universities of applied sciences who have registered for attendance for the academic term may use the FSHS’s services. In other words, you are covered by the FSHS’s services if you are completing a bachelor’s or master’s degree at a university.
The following groups are not covered by the FSHS’s services:
- International exchange students arriving from abroad
- Students of the Open University
- Continuing education students
- Postgraduate students
- Commissioned education students
If you are not covered by the FSHS’s services, you can turn to municipal health care.
Exchange students arriving from within the EU/EEA can contact the city’s student health care.
For exchange students arriving from outside the EU/EEA, we recommend the use of health insurance and turning to private service providers.
The FSHS’s services
The basic task of the FSHS is to organise health care services for students and to promote students’ health and study ability as well as the wellbeing of the study environment.
The FSHS organises general health, oral health and mental health services for students. Students should primarily always contact the FSHS before going over to public or private health services.
Further information on the contents of the services is available here:
To make an appointment with the FSHS, call them to have your need for treatment assessed: oral health services 046 710 1085; other services 046 710 1073.
You can also make an appointment through the FSHS’s SelfChat.
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Due to the expansion, the FSHS will open a new service point in Malmi, Helsinki, at Malmin kauppatie 8.
It will also continue to operate in Töölö and Otaniemi.
More details on the service points is available on FSHS website.
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If you are completing higher education studies leading to a degree at the University of Helsinki, you are entitled to use the FSHS’s services. In this case, follow the instructions given in the ‘Payments’ section.
Exchange students arriving from within the EU/EEA can contact the city’s student health care.
These students can contact nurse Marja Laiho, p. +358406624166 from the beginning of 2021.
The address for the city´s student health care is: Mechelininkatu 46, 4th floor. 00250 Helsinki.
For exchange students arriving from outside the EU/EEA, we recommend the use of health insurance and turning to private service providers.
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