Insurance
Seguro al Turista (Panama's free tourist insurance)
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Since September 2026 Panama gives free medical and assistance cover for the first 10 days to visitors under 86 who fly in through approved airports. It activates automatically with the entry stamp and is a perk, not an entry requirement.
Good to know
Ten days and modest caps will not cover a typical yeshiva-week trip fully, and pre-existing conditions are excluded; the US and Canada still recommend your own medical and evacuation cover.
Details
- Insurer
- Internacional de Seguros
- Activated
- September 2026 (press reports; the official ATP page gives no start date)
- Age limit
- Under 86
- Activation
- Automatic at passport stamp; no registration
- Exclusions
- Pre-existing, chronic and congenital conditions
- Coverage days
- 10
- Assistance email
- seguroalturista@iseguros.com
- Eligible airports
- Tocumen (PTY); Panamá Pacífico; Enrique Malek (David); Scarlett Martínez (Río Hato); Enrique Adolfo Jiménez (Colón); José Ezequiel Hall (Bocas del Toro)
- Assistance whatsapp
- +1 305 722 5824
- Benefit caps source
- Unofficial: visasnews.com summary only; the ATP page links to the full terms, which were not read
- Activated confidence
- medium
- Land and sea arrivals
- Not covered
- Assistance call center
- +507 840-4585
- On site booking option
- Seguro al turista
- Not bookable; automatic.
- Supplemental private insurance
- Provider
- Cover Genius (XCover)
- What is offered
- RESTful APIs for embedded, white-labeled travel protection
- Reported benefit caps (USD)
- Accidental death
- 20000
- Medical hospital
- 15000
- Outpatient drugs
- 500
- Accidental dental
- 1000
- Air ambulance abroad
- 50000
- Repatriation of remains
- 10000
- Medical transport in panama
- 10000
- Mandatory private insurance for entry
- No
Sources
- tourismpanama.com (opens in a new tab) · checked Nov 5, 2026
- visasnews.com (opens in a new tab) · checked Nov 5, 2026
- travel.gc.ca (opens in a new tab) · checked Nov 5, 2026
- web.archive.org (opens in a new tab) · checked Nov 5, 2026
- covergenius.com (opens in a new tab) · checked Nov 5, 2026
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