The Botkin Hospital provides all kinds of emergency medical care. The E.R. medics promptly examine and diagnose a patient using modern equipment and take measures to stabilize his or her condition. The 24-hour intensive care unit, the emergency surgical block and the anti-shock ward for stroke patients are in function. Emergency assistance is being provided to foreign citizens who do not have an insurance policy as well.
The best Botkin specialists consult at the Clinical and Diagnostic Center of the hospital. Its patients may be subsequently admitted to one of 80 inpatient departments specialized in abdominal, endocrine, cardiovascular or neurosurgery, urology and gynecology, traumatology and orthopedics, ophthalmology, to one of the several cancer departments, the infectious diseases service, one of the therapeutic departments or the maternity unit. Scheduled and outpatient medical care is being provided to foreign patients on paid basis.
The patient (a foreign citizen) who does not have the right to health insurance in accordance with the Federal law of 29.11.2010 № 326 "On compulsory health insurance in the Russian Federation", medical care for emergency indications is provided free of charge (at the expense of the FOMS), p. 6 of the Rules of medical care to foreign citizens in the Russian Federation of 06.03.2013, approved by the Government decree №186).
If a patient (a foreign citizen, a citizen of a foreign state, as well as a stateless person) has a policy of voluntary medical insurance upon admission to the Hospital for emergency indications, the patient or an accompanying person shall inform the insurance company that issued the policy of voluntary medical insurance about the emergency by calling the hotline. After that, the insurance company sends a letter of guarantee to the health care facility with the obligation to cover the treatment. Planned and outpatient medical care to the patient (a foreign citizen, a citizen of a foreign state) is carried out on a paid basis under contracts for the provision of paid services with individuals and legal entities (residents of the Russian Federation), or under contracts of voluntary medical insurance, the list of which is presented below.
