Swiss Liaison Office for occupational accidents and diseases

As the Liaison Office, we take on the administrative processing (case management) for people with foreign accident insurance (EU/EFTA countries and the United Kingdom) who have suffered an occupational accident or are suffering from an occupational disease and are being treated in Switzerland. One aspect of this involves checking and paying invoices from service providers (hospitals, doctors, therapists, etc.).

If you are planning to seek treatment in Switzerland, we require confirmation of cover by your accident insurer (DA1 form). Please send us the DA1 form. Once we have received this, we will open a claim for you and provide you with information on how to proceed in writing.

Have you already received medical or therapeutic treatment in Switzerland and been issued with an invoice? You do not have to pay these invoices yourself. We will check and pay these invoices for you.

For treatment in an EU/EFTA country or in the United Kingdom with a social security agreement in place, we will send confirmation of cover or a request to apply a foreign tariff system to the foreign liaison office. The countries concerned are marked in light blue in the interactive graphic above.

Forwarding of forms DA1 and DA002 to the competent liaison office

Please send us form DA1 (confirmation of cover) to the following e-mail address: sc.ausland@suva.ch.

We will then send the DA1 form along with the DA002 form electronically to the competent foreign liaison office. We will also send a copy to you after forwarding.

Termination of benefits under the cost coverage commitment (DA003 form)

To terminate the cost coverage commitment, send your letter of refusal to us at the following email address: sc.ausland@suva.ch

We will then send the DA003 form along with your letter of refusal electronically to the competent foreign liaison office. We will also send a copy to you after forwarding.

Please note that the termination of benefits cannot be applied with retroactive effect. Benefits are only terminated from the date of receipt of the DA003 form by the foreign liaison office. You must continue to pay all benefits up to this date.

We aim to process all enquiries as quickly as possible.

Application of a foreign tariff system (S067 non-occupational accident/DA004 occupational accident/occupational disease)

Costs are reimbursed in accordance with the social tariff of the country where the treatment took place. To identify the relevant social tariff, please send us a request to apply a foreign tariff system.

In order to process the request to apply a foreign tariff system, we require the following information about the insuree to be sent by e-mail to sc.ausland@suva.ch:

• Personal details/date of birth
• Complete, up-to-date address
• Whether the enquiry concerns an occupational accident, non-occupational accident or occupational disease
• Date of claim and description of the consequences of the accident (affected body part) or description of the occupational disease
• Whether the treatment was planned or took place on an emergency basis
• Service providers involved and location and country of treatment
• Invoice total in euros
• Important: when making the request to apply a foreign tariff system, a separate e-mail must be sent for each individual invoice (send these as a PDF).
• We charge CHF 30 for each request to apply a foreign tariff system.

Once the request to apply a foreign tariff system has successfully been sent, we will also send a copy to you.