Step 1 · Contact
What the matter concerns.
The practice, in detail
General medical practice, fees and tariff status, independence, and teaching.
Program 01 · Registered activity
General medical practice
Practising medicine in Belgium requires the diploma, a visa from the federal health authority and registration with the Order of Physicians, together with compliance with the quality of practice legislation covering competence, continuity of care and the keeping of a patient record. Those registrations are stated on the legal page rather than asserted loosely here. Where a matter falls outside this practice, you will be told and directed, rather than seen anyway.
Step 2 · Consultation
History, examination, discussion.
Step 3 · Information
Purpose, risks, costs, options.
Step 4 · Consent
Freely given, after all of that.
Step 1 · The status
Adhering, partly, or not.
Step 2 · The tariff
What that means for you.
Step 3 · The supplement
If any, said beforehand.
Step 4 · The invoice
Matching what you were told.
Program 02 · Before, not after
Fees and tariff status
A doctor in Belgium either adheres to the national agreement with the sickness funds or does not, and that single choice decides whether a supplement may be charged on top of the agreed tariff. It is the most practically useful fact a patient can have and it is far too often discovered at the invoice. The status of this practice is stated on the legal page, and the fee applicable to a consultation is given in advance on request.
Program 03 · Published by law
Independence
Belgian law requires premiums and benefits granted by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to healthcare professionals to be disclosed and published on a public transparency platform. For a practice that also teaches and organises scientific meetings, that obligation is directly engaged rather than theoretical. Sponsored invitations to scientific events also need prior approval from the competent body once hospitality passes the thresholds.
Step 1 · The benefit
Whatever is received, recorded.
Step 2 · The threshold
Whether approval is needed.
Step 3 · The approval
Obtained before, not after.
Step 4 · The platform
Published as the law requires.
Step 1 · The audience
Professional, and defined.
Step 2 · The content
Prepared for that audience.
Step 3 · The funding
Declared where it exists.
Step 4 · The record
Kept for the disclosure.
Program 04 · Professional audiences
Teaching and meetings
Registered activities of the company alongside the medical practice, directed at professional audiences. Content prepared for a professional audience is not patient-specific advice and should not be read as such by anyone. Where any of it is sponsored, the transparency and prior-approval rules above apply in full, which is precisely why they appear on a page like this rather than being left to an annual form.
Need to contact the practice?
Fees are stated in advance on request. In an emergency, contact the emergency services.