Family practitioners and conventional doctors in public hospital OPDs only exceptionally charged consultation fees.
Some of the major barriers mentioned were technical problems related to accessing the call centre, charging consultation fees, and unfamiliarity with the call centre physicians.
As this illustrates, both public-employed and salaried doctors, whether or not they work as doctors in this context, and private doctors who charge consultation fees, run their own private clinics.
When village doctors used the call centre services they experienced some barriers which were related to charging consultation fees, facing technical problems, and trusting the unfamiliar doctors in the call centre.
[sic] IDI 10 To summarize, from the village doctors' perspective, charging consultation fees, technical problems, and lack of familiarity between qualified doctors and the village doctors were barriers to the use of the intervention.
However, some of the users, providers and NGO representatives in our study held that, in practice, user fees were still being charged for consultations with GPs, confirming the finding of other studies that under-the-counter payments and user fees are often difficult to distinguish [ 16, 17].
On the average, private hospitals charged a consultation fee of USD 1.31.
In addition, patients seeking care in the private sector were not charged a consultation fee, which made-up about one quarter of the direct public sector treatment.
In some high-end salons you will be charged a consultation fee, speak with the manager and see if it can be returned if this is the case.
Portugal and Luxembourg joined France and Belgium in charging for consultations with doctors.
But the firm has no minimum fee, does not charge for consultations and often does small apartments.
