The health card, which includes the tax code released by the Italian Revenue Agency, is used when the citizen goes to the doctor, buys medicines at a chemist’s, books a test in a lab, has a specialist examination in the hospital or at a ASL (territorial office of the National Health Service) surgery, benefits by thermal treatments or whenever it is needed to certify his own tax code.
The card is strictly personal and allows the holder to obtain health services in the European Union countries.