Medical Certificate in Bologna: 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 Bologna.

No. 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 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, including 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. A certificate is not a substitute for care — if you need to be examined or treated, see a doctor.

It can support one, but each department sets its own evidence requirements and some ask for specific wording. Check what yours actually requires first, and tell us who the certificate is for so the wording can be matched.

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.

Each certificate is assessed and priced separately at €34.99, because each is a separate clinical decision rather than a document generated from the same form. In practice most people need one; the commonest reason for wanting two is that the absence and the return to work are being handled by different people at the same employer. If that is your situation, ask whether one covers both before ordering, because some employers want only the re-entry statement. And if what you actually need is the INPS certificato di malattia for statutory sick pay, that is issued free of charge by your medico di base and is not something to buy from anyone.

Almost certainly not the one the club means, and it is better to know that now. Registering with a club affiliated to a CONI-recognised federation normally requires an Italian certificato di idoneità sportiva, and neither version can come from a remote assessment. The non agonistica certificate needs an in-person visit with a physical examination and blood pressure reading plus a properly reported resting ECG; the agonistica one goes further and is reserved to sports-medicine specialists, with an ECG at rest and after exertion. Where our sports fitness and general fitness certificates do fit is the layer underneath that — a gym, a private class or a non-federated recreational activity asking for a fitness statement, which Italian law has not required since 2013 but which providers ask for anyway.

This is the single most common Bologna situation, and it has two separate answers. For anything tied to statutory sick pay or an INPS filing you need a doctor who can enter it into the system, which means either moving your registration to the local AUSL as a resident or domicile registration, or using the guardia medica while you are here. For a certificate that simply has to state that a doctor assessed you — a departmental absence request, an insurer, a landlord, a gym, a travel provider — no local registration is involved, and a remote assessment works from your room in Bologna exactly as it would anywhere else. Students on short exchanges in particular often find the registration transfer is not worth it for a single document, so check which of the two your department or provider is actually asking for.

Every approved certificate is issued as a PDF carrying a verification reference, and that is what the recipient checks rather than taking the document on trust. It is the practical answer to the objection people worry about most — not whether a remote assessment is permitted, but whether the paper in front of an administrator is real. It also means you should send the file itself rather than a photograph of a screen, since a reference that cannot be read cannot be checked. If a Bologna department or employer has a portal for uploads, use it; documents sent to a personal inbox are the ones that get mislaid.

Take that seriously, because in one specific case they are right. If what they need is the INPS certificato di malattia telematico for paid sick leave, it has to be filed electronically by your medico di base or the guardia medica and there is no route around it. If they mean anything else — a re-entry statement, general medical documentation, a fitness confirmation — the position is that a registered doctor certifies what they are able to properly assess, and an employer's preference is a preference rather than a rule. Ask which of the two it is, in writing, and the disagreement usually resolves itself.