Additional charge for Emergency Consultation 時間外に救急受診される場合に発生する料金について(時間外選定療養費)

2024.11.01 revised

Emergency Critical Care Center at Sasebo City General Hospital offers urgent medical treatments 24/7 for critical patients, such as Cerebrovascular Accident, Acute Cardiac Infarction, serious wounds and others within Sasebo City and north Nagasaki prefecture. Therefore, consultations for mild cases that do not require hospitalization or surgery are not accepted as a rule.
If your symptom is mild or not urgent, please visit the Municipal Clinic (Kyubyo Shinryosho) for the first consultation.
If you visit us for mild case, extra fee is charged in addition to your medical bill.

Extra charge: 8,800 yen
Applicable hours: 5:15pm – 8:00am weekdays,
24 hours on weekends, holidays and Dec.29-Jan.3

Exceptions;
・Visit during the time range above by doctor’s order.
・Admitted to the hospital after consultation by doctor’s decision.
・Submitted a referral letter from other medical facilities.
・Those who are covered by Public Health Care Programs, excluding public welfare medical care for preschool amd school children.
・Necessary visit due to worsening of disease which has been treated at our hospital.
・When the attending doctor deems it an emergency case.