As part of the National Health Insurance Scheme, the Finnish Health Care Reimbursement Plan covers a percentage of doctors' fees, costs of examinations, costs for prescription medicines, dentist services for children and young adults, and treatments performed at a private hospital or under special fee arrangements at a public hospital. Preventive occupational health care services are also partially financed through the plan. The Finnish primary health care is a mixture of public and private services. The Finnish Health Care System Finland is divided into 21 health care districts. There are about 300 hospitals or clinics with a total of 50,000 beds.
Municipalities own public, subsidized hospitals.
About 18 percent of all hospitals are private. Public hospitals are financed by member municipalities in relation to the use of services by their inhabitants. In 1997, the share of public financing of hospitals was 95 percent. Patients' share of hospital costs was 5 percent. Currently there are 283 health centers that provide a range of local public services, including physician, x ray, laboratory and dental services.