An expert explains how to open a private medical practice. What permits must be obtained and what conditions should be met to open a doctor's office. Presents the principles of group medical practice.
Who issuespermitsto conduct their own medical practice? Pursuant to the Act on medical activities, doctors may practice their profession as part ofmedical activitieson the terms specified in the Act and in separate regulations, after being entered in the register of entities performing medical activities. The authority keeping the register of medical activities for doctors is the district medical council competent for the place where the doctor's professional practice is performed with regard to these practices.
Forms of medical activity
The medical activity of doctors or dentists, as part of their professional practice, may be performed in the form of:
1) sole proprietorship:
- individual medical practice;
- individual medical practice only at the place of call;
- individual specialist medical practice;
- individual specialist medical practice only at the point of call;
- individual medical practice only in the enterprise of a medical entity under an agreement with this entity;
- individual specialist medical practice only in the enterprise of the he althcare entity on the basis of an agreement with this entity.
2) Civil law partnership, general partnership or partnership, as a group medical practice
Conditions of medical practice
A physician performing medical activities, as an individual medical practice, is obliged to meet the following conditions due to Art. 18 of the Act on Medical Activity:
1) have the right to practice a profession;
It is worth noting that a doctor may not be almost suspended or limited in performing certain medical activities. He may not be punished with the pen alty of suspension of the right to practice the profession or deprived of the possibility of practicing the profession by a final judgment of a penal measure prohibiting the practice of the profession, or suspended from practicing the profession by the applied measurepreventive. If a doctor wants to perform medical activities as an individual specialist medical practice, he must also have a specialization in the field of medicine corresponding to the type and scope of he alth services provided;
2) have a room where he alth services will be provided, as well as be equipped with medicinal products, medical devices, apparatus and medical equipment appropriate to the type and scope of he alth services provided. The acceptance criterion for the provision of specific he alth services is determined by the competent authority of the State Sanitary Inspection. It is worth noting that the obligation to have a room does not apply to doctors performing individual medical practice only at the place of call. However, they must indicate the address of the registered office as well as the place where the summons are received and the place where medical records, medicinal products and medical equipment are stored. Doctors who want to perform medical activities only in the enterprise of the subject of the contract with this entity are also exempt from the obligation to have premises;
3) obtain an entry in the Central Register and Information on Economic Activity;
4) conclude a third party liability insurance contract, which will cover damages resulting from the provision of he alth services or unlawful omission to provide he alth services - the same as medical entities are obliged to have.
How to conduct a group medical practice?
Medical activity as part of group medical practice may be performed only by doctors who are partners of a civil partnership or general partnership or partners of a partnership.
The act on medical activity introduces the obligation to conclude a civil liability insurance contract for damages caused as a result of providing he alth services or unlawful omission to provide he alth services.
Each internship is required to have organizational regulations that contain the following data:
- company of the subject,
- Objectives and Objectives,
- type of medical activity and scope of provided he alth services,
- place where he alth services are provided,
- fee for providing medical documentation,
- organization of the process of providing he alth services in the event of charging fees
- fees for provided he alth services other than those financed from public funds.
An entity performing medical activities, entered into the register, is obligednotify the authority maintaining the register of any changes to the data included in the register within 14 days from the date of their creation. In the event of failure to report a change to the data included in the register within the time limit, the authority maintaining the register may impose a fine.
Required fees
Entry of a professional practice in the register is subject to a fee amounting to:
- 2% of the average monthly salary in the enterprise sector without the payment of bonuses from the profit for the previous year, announced by the President of the Central Statistical Office in force on the date of submitting the application for entry in the register rounded up to PLN currently, i.e. PLN 72.
- Changing the entry in the register constitutes 50% of the entry fee, i.e. PLN 36.
Legal basis:
Act on medical activity (Journal of Laws of 2011 No. 112, item 654, as amended)