Medical Certificate in Naples: 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 Naples.

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 that kind of request, but each faculty and department sets its own evidence requirements, and some ask for specific wording. Check what yours actually asks for 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.

It is €34.99, and it is the same across Italy because the assessment is the same: a doctor registered to assess cases in Italy reviews what you submit, wherever you happen to be. There is no Naples rate and no regional adjustment, and the figure covers all six certificate types equally. Local private prices do vary a great deal, which is why people ask, but nothing about a Neapolitan address changes what the review involves. The one genuinely free option remains the INPS certificato di malattia from your medico di base, and only for statutory sick pay.

Almost always a general fitness statement rather than a statutory certificate. Swimming for exercise is attività ludico-motoria, for which Italian law has required no medical certificate since 2013, yet pools and gyms across the city continue to ask as a condition of membership — and the general fitness certificate is built for that gap. If the pool is registering you with a federation or entering you for competition the picture changes, and you need the certificato di idoneità sportiva, which requires an in-person visit and a properly reported resting ECG. Worth adding for anyone over 60 with cardiovascular risk factors: the non-competitive certificate then requires a fresh reported resting ECG each year, which no remote assessment can produce.

Sometimes, and it depends on what can honestly be assessed rather than on what you would like it to say. A doctor can consider a history covering recent days and decide whether the evidence supports a stated period; what no doctor can do is certify a period they have no basis for, and a request to backdate a long stretch will be declined. For statutory sick pay there is a stricter answer: the INPS certificato di malattia normally runs from the date the doctor issues it, which is why the advice is always to contact your medico di base or the guardia medica on the first day rather than afterwards. If you have already missed days, say so plainly when you submit — a doctor working from accurate information is more use to you than one working from a version that suits the form.

No, and it is worth saying directly. Emergency departments in the city, Cardarelli included, run at very high volume, and a request for documentation is neither an emergency nor something they are set up to produce — you would wait a long time and quite possibly leave without it. Your medico di base handles the INPS certificate; the guardia medica covers nights, weekends and holidays for urgent primary care. A remote assessment covers the general fitness, travel, return-to-work and general medical documentation that neither of those is a natural fit for. If your symptoms are severe, the pronto soccorso is the right place — for the illness, not the paperwork.

Partly, and the part that is right matters. For statutory sick pay the certificate must be filed electronically into the INPS system, and that is done by a doctor working within the national health service — your medico di base or the guardia medica — so in that narrow sense your employer is correct. For anything else, no Italian rule requires documentation to originate from an ASL surgery: a return-to-work statement, a fitness confirmation or general medical evidence from a registered doctor stands on the doctor's registration, not on the building it was written in. The practical move is to ask HR to name the document they want. Most disagreements of this kind disappear once the two are separated.