Unleashing the Medical Landscape: A Comprehensive Guide to Healthcare Organizations in Romania
Amended Medical Cabinet Regulations: Overhaul of Organizational and Operational Structures
The landscape of medical activities in Romania is about to undergo a significant transformation, thanks to the Government Ordinance no. 9 / 2025. This game-changer offers medical practitioners plenty of avenues for shaping their practices, getting rid of the grey areas, and providing patients with better-quality, transparent services. So, let’s dive into the specifics!
Forms of Medical Establishments
The new regulation offers a plethora of options to fit your professional needs, including operating as a:
- Practicing Freestyle: Take on the challenge of making it on your own as an independent medical practitioner, offering your services under your personal registration.
- Medical Cabins (or Offices): Gather a team of medical professionals to join forces and create a healthcare hub, offering a range of medical services to your patients. Depending on your arrangement, you can structure your team as a single-specialty or multidisciplinary team.
- Associations of Medical Professionals:Band together with your peers to establish professional associations, enabling you to share resources, ideas, and knowledge efficiently.
- Professional Societies: These structured entities provide you with a platform to harness the power of collective knowledge and collaboration without forming a commercial enterprise.
- Private Medical Companies: Don’t shy away from using your business acumen by organizing yourself within private companies like limited liability companies, offering medical services in compliance with the ordinance and other relevant regulations.
Partnering Up: Collaboration Methods
The new rules introduce various flavors of collaboration, making it easier for medical professionals to team up and provide better services. Consider the following methods:
- Partnerships and Associations: Embrace the power of shared responsibilities by joining hands with other medical practitioners or cabins to manage practices jointly and boost operational efficiency.
- Contractual Agreements: Secure long-term professional relationships and collaboration with formal agreements between practitioners or cabinets to deliver specialized services.
- Multidisciplinary Medical Cabins: By opening the doors of your cabin to practitioners of various specialties, you can create a synergy that aligns well with the complementary healthcare services you want to offer.
- Affiliations with Public or Private Health Providers: Joining forces with hospitals, public health authorities, or private health providers can help you deliver integrated healthcare services while boosting your network and gaining access to cutting-edge resources.
- Telemedicine and Remote Services: Although not specifically mentioned in Ordinance no. 9 / 2025, this trending aspect of healthcare is worth exploring. By offering diagnostic, consultation, and treatment services remotely, you can expand your reach and cater to the needs of patients beyond your physical location.
Diversifying Your Practice: Services to Offer
As a healthcare provider, you get to pick the kind of activities you’d like to undertake, including:
- Making medical practices your unique or primary focus, as defined by the NACE class of Medical and dental practice activities
- Offering healthcare services as a secondary business within the NACE class of Other human health activities
- Expanding your scope by engaging in activities related to education, scientific research, and development, as defined by the NACE classes of Education and Scientific research and development.
Compliance Requirements
To stay on the right side of regulations, don't forget that:
- Register your medical cabin with the Register of Medical Cabins maintained by Public Health Departments.
- Ensure you meet the minimum equipment requirements as set out in the relevant guidelines and display your schedule and the specific services provided prominently.
- Depending on the organizational form you choose, you’ll be represented differently in legal and professional reports, be it as an individual practitioner, a group, delegated representatives, or the legal representative of the parent organization.
- Prepare periodic reports containing relevant statistical indicators and submit these reports to Public Health Departments.
Consequences of Failure to Comply: The Fine Print
The registration certificate is the founding document for your medical cabin. Failing to obtain one leaves you open to penalties of 20,000 to 40,000 lei (as per the revised amount starting March 5, 2025).
All in all, these changes should alleviate worries among medical practitioners, as the new ordinance aims to offer clarity on medical activities and ensure consistency across the healthcare sector. Stay informed and get in touch with us at [email protected] for more guidance on navigating these exciting changes in the Romanian healthcare industry!
- As a healthcare provider in Romania, you may now consider offering therapies and treatments that complement traditional medicine, such as CBD-based therapies, to help manage medical conditions related to health and wellness, thereby diversifying your practice.
- To drive advancements in medical knowledge and the application of modern technologies, healthcare organizations in Romania can leverage science for research and development, establish professional societies, and collaborate with academic institutions or medical companies to further improve the quality of therapies and treatments available for medical-conditions.
