It conducts its business as a public institute, bound by statute to provide compulsory health insurance.
[1] Voluntary health insurance comprises supplemental health insurance (dopolnilno zdravstveno zavarovanje) and additional health insurance (Slovene: dodatno zdravstveno zavarovanje), the first covering the full cost of a number of common healthcare services and the second providing for superior standard of hospital treatment and some other premium rights.
[4] The Institute comprises 10 regional units and 45 branch offices distributed around the territory of Slovenia.
The Slovene health insurance card (kartica zdravstvenega zavarovanja) system was introduced, at the national scale, in the year 1999.
Medical records are accessed by a healthcare professional using a double card reader.