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Health checkups — free every 2 years with health insurance

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People with health insurance (employee subscribers, regional household heads, household members and dependants aged 20+) get the NHIS general health checkup free once every 2 years. Non-office workers get it every year.

📌 Key points

The checkup period is 1 January to 31 December of that year. If the result has a doctor's note that big-hospital care is needed, it can replace a referral letter at a tertiary hospital. Also — from age 19, dental scaling is covered by health insurance once a year (January–December).

🔢 Do these in order

  1. Check whether you are eligible — look at the NHIS notice (e-document or post), print an eligibility confirmation on the NHIS website, or ask 1577-1000.
  2. Book an appointment at a checkup hospital (designated checkup institution).
  3. Do not eat after 9 p.m. the night before, and bring ID (residence card or passport). Extra tests may cost money.

📍 Where to go

National Health Insurance Service 1577-1000

💻 Do it online

See also

Basis

  • 국민건강보험공단 「일반건강검진」 https://www.nhis.or.kr/nhis/healthin/wbhaca04500m01.do (「2026년 일반(암)건강검진 안내문」 게시 · Claude 직접 대조 2026-10-06) — 대상 「지역세대주, 직장가입자, 20세 이상 세대원과 피부양자, 20~64세 의료급여수급권자」 · 「매 2년마다 1회, 비사무직은 매년」 · 검진기간 1.1. ~ 12.31. · 무료 · 신분증 · 검진대상 확인서 · 1577-1000
  • 찾기쉬운 생활법령 「결혼이민자 — 국민건강보험의 적용」 (2026-09-15 기준) https://www.easylaw.go.kr/CSP/CnpClsMain.laf?csmSeq=47&ccfNo=3&cciNo=1&cnpClsNo=4 — 공단은 가입자와 피부양자에게 건강검진 실시
  • 국민건강보험 요양급여의 기준에 관한 규칙 제2조 ④ (법제처 현행 2026-04-15 판) — 의사 소견이 적힌 건강검진결과서로 의뢰서를 갈음
  • 건강보험심사평가원 「치석제거」 https://www.hira.or.kr/dummy.do?pgmid=HIRAA050200000000&cmsurl=%2Fcms%2Fmedi_info%2F02%2F01%2F1343431_27565.html (2026-10-06 확인) — 「19세 이상 연(매년 1월~12월) 1회 요양급여」 · 보건복지부 정책브리핑 Q&A(2024-05-31) 같은 내용 · 본인부담 금액은 자료마다 달라 안 씀

This content was checked on 2026-10-06.

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