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This Polish Hospital Will Let Patients Settle Bills With Bitcoin
A hospital run by Medicover now accepts payment in bitcoin, making it probably the first to accept cryptocurrency payments.
Updated Sep 11, 2021, 11:16 a.m. Published Oct 24, 2014, 12:43 p.m.
A private hospital in Warsaw, Poland, which is run by the Medicover Group, will soon let patients pay their bills in bitcoin. A bitcoin ATM planned to be launched at the facility in the near future should make that process even easier.
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While a number of clinics and doctors around the world have been accepting bitcoins for minor treatments and consultations, the medical facility is the first to accept payments for a wide range of healthcare services, including major surgery, the chain said.
says its flagship outlet in Poland’s capital treats more than 8,000 international patients from over 20 countries worldwide.
Marcelina Szyszka, a staff member who was involved in the bitcoin integration, told CoinDesk that currently, the bitcoin payment service will be provided solely at the group's hospital in Warsaw's Wilanow district. However, if the service proves to be popular, they would likely extend it to other Medicover centres.
She said:
"Our IT team is currently setting up a payment platform which will be used by Medicover Hospital. In the future, we will also launch a bitcoin ATM at the hospital."
Bitcoin price list
Tucson Dunn, director of the Hospital Division at Medicover Group, said that the chain places an emphasis on ensuring a transparent pricing policy for its existing and potential patients.
“What makes Medicover Hospital special in the new realm of bitcoin healthcare is that the hospital has a published bitcoin price list for every type of care,” Dunn said, adding:
“We led the development of the International Diagnosis Resource Grouping (DRG) price list which was adopted by the International Healthcare Commission. The iDRG price list is the most widely accepted international price list in the world, accepted by over 100 insurance companies worldwide.”
Working in collaboration with Szyszka, Dunn says he converted the International DRG price list to a bitcoin price list, dubbed the 'BTC-DRG' price list, making it the first international bitcoin healthcare price list.
Extensive coverage
Medicover is one of the leading healthcare companies active in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Set up in 1993, the group is present in 10 of the region’s countries, including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria, as well as in Germany, Turkey and Georgia.
In Poland, the group operates 30 healthcare facilities, of which nine are located in Warsaw, with a combined workforce of 1,400 doctors and 500,000 registered patients in its database. The group’s flagship outlet in the Polish capital has medical staff consisting of 170 doctors, 80 nurses and 20 radiology and ultrasound technicians.
The Warsaw-based hospital's divisions include women's health, obstetrics, children's health, cardiology, internal medicine, surgery, as well as anaesthesiology and intensive care, providing a wide range of healthcare services, according to Medicover.
The outlet says it has been cooperating with Poland’s state-run National Health Fund since 2011, enabling it to provide certain hospital services to patients covered by public health insurance.
Hospital foyer image courtesy of Medicover Poland
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