Medical Certificate in Bari: Online, Same-Day from €34.99

No. The assessment is completed online and reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Italy, so where you are in the country makes no difference to the process or the price. This page exists because people search for their own city, not because the service works differently in Bari.

No, and it is worth being clear about that. The INPS-linked electronic sickness certificate that Italian employers rely on for statutory sick pay is generally issued by your own medico di base, or out of hours by the guardia medica (continuità assistenziale), and is transmitted directly to INPS. Our certificate is a separate, complementary general medical document — for insurance, visa, education, sport or travel purposes. If you need paid sick leave through INPS, contact your medico di base or the guardia medica.

Our certificate is €34.99 flat, which includes the doctor's review, the PDF and its verification reference. A private doctor visit in Italy commonly falls in the €50-€120 range depending on the type of consultation. That said, a certificate is not a substitute for care: if you need to be examined or treated, see a doctor.

Not the general position, but shift-based employers often have their own written notification procedures on top of whatever national rules apply, usually covering who to notify and by when. Check your contract or handbook, and for anything tied to statutory sick pay through INPS specifically, see the national rules above.

Same day, usually within 30 minutes of the doctor approving your case during business hours. Some cases take longer where the doctor needs more information from you before making a decision.

It is €34.99 in Italy, and that is the same figure for all six types assessed — sick leave, sports fitness, general fitness, fit to fly, return to work and general medical. There is no city surcharge, no subscription and no separate fee for the PDF or its verification reference. What you are paying for is a doctor's review of the information you submit and, where it is approved, the certificate itself. Some documents cannot be produced from a remote assessment at all — the Italian certificato medico sportivo is the main example — so it is worth checking which one you actually need before you start.

It depends which document the gym actually needs, and Italian law is not what most gyms assume. Since 2013 there has been no legal requirement for a medical certificate for purely recreational activity — attività ludico-motoria, meaning the gym floor, the pool, a run or a fitness class — yet a great many gyms still ask for one as a house rule, and our general fitness and sports fitness certificates are built for exactly that situation. What they are not is the certificato di idoneità sportiva non agonistica: that one is set by the health ministry decree of 24 April 2013, requires an in-person visit with a physical examination and blood pressure check plus a properly reported resting ECG, and is issued by your medico di base, a paediatrician or a sports-medicine doctor. If your gym or club is affiliated to a CONI-recognised federation and wants that specific certificate, book the in-person visit instead.

That is the return-to-work case, and it is a different document from whatever covered the absence. Production and logistics sites around Bari commonly run a written re-entry step before someone resumes a shift role, and what they want is a statement that you are fit to return rather than a record of why you were away — which is what the return-to-work assessment covers, at the same €34.99. Where a job carries a statutory occupational-health requirement, such as safety-critical duties or certain handling and machinery roles, that fitness judgement sits with the company's own medico competente under Italian workplace health rules and no online certificate replaces it. Ask HR in writing which of the two they mean before you order.

An honest answer is: whatever can be assessed from a detailed history plus anything you can document. A doctor registered to assess cases in Italy reads what you report — symptoms, timeline, medication, relevant history — and decides whether that supports the specific certificate you asked for. It is a real clinical decision, which is why cases are sometimes declined or sent back for more information. What it cannot do is substitute for a measurement that has to be taken in the room: a resting ECG, a spirometry trace, an auscultation finding. Where the certificate you need legally depends on one of those, the assessment tells you so rather than issuing around it.

Get their requirement in writing first. Refusals almost always come down to a paperwork mismatch rather than doubt about the doctor: the body wanted a named form, a particular Italian wording, a different certificate type, or something filed directly by a doctor into a state system. Public bodies in Bari, including regional and ASL offices, tend to be the most prescriptive about this. Once you can quote what they asked for, say so when you submit your case and the doctor can tell you whether a remote assessment can produce it. Every approved certificate also carries a verification reference the recipient can check, which handles the more common objection — whether the document is genuine.