Copayment or personal share is the amount you pay yourself for your admission or doctor's visit. This means the health insurance fund does not reimburse this piece. 

In order to avoid excessive health care costs, health insurance companies, the government and health care providers make biennial agreements on the fees that doctors may charge. However, doctors and other health care providers are free to sign that convention in full, in part or not at all. If they sign that convention, then their convention status is '(fully) conventioned'. Physicians can also be partially conventioned, meaning that they work at certain locations and/or certain hours according to the conventioned rates and therefore not at other locations and/or hours. Their convention status is therefore 'partially conventioned'. It is best to ask these physicians beforehand where  and when they work according to the convention.

Also, physicians may choose not to charge their rates according to the convention at all, in which case their convention status is 'unconventional'.

On every physician's page on this website you can find out whether or not that physician is conventioned. You can also always ask the doctor himself or the secretary where you book your appointment.

Download the list of our physicians' convention status here.

Best is to have these examinations as soon as possible. At some departments, you don't need an appointment and can drop by immediately (for example the clinical biology lab).

Preoperative examinations should be no more than 6 months old, blood tests no more than 3 months. If your surgery is scheduled for 6 months from now, it is better to wait a little longer before having the examinations carried out.

Please note that most hospitalisation insurance policies cover pre-operative appointments only in the month prior to surgery. Contact your hospital insurance company for more information.

If you have the tests performed somewhere else, the results must be delivered to the hospital at least 14 days before your procedure. External providers can provide this digitally to the hospital via the eHealthbox.

Which examinations you should have depends on your surgery and your health condition. We follow the guideline of the Federaal Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg (Federal Knowledge Center for Health Care).

The pre-admission department will see which examinations are necessary for you and refer you to the departments. If necessary, they will give you an application form..

All examinations are in the hospital. The ECG and the MRSA swab will be taken at the pre-admission department itself. The other examinations are on the following departments:

• Blood draw
  Lab Clinical Biology (Block D, turquoise color, 1st floor), without appointment between 9.00 am and 5:00 pm.
• Urine culture
  Lab Clinical Biology (Block D, turquoise color, 1st floor), without appointment between 9.00 am and 5:00 pm. 
• RX
  Radiology (Block A (blue color, ground floor), without appointment between 8.00 am and noon or between 1:30 and 6:00 p.m. 
• Radiological examination
  Radiology (block A (blue color, ground floor), with appointment between 8.00 am and noon or between 1:30 and 6:00 p.m. 
• Cardiological examination
  Cardiology (Block E, brown color, ground floor), with appointment.

Please note that most hospitalization insurance policies cover preoperative appointments only in the month prior to surgery. Contact your hospitalization insurance for more information. 

This is allowed. This person may indicate at the beginning of the questionnaire that he/she is completing the questionnaire for the patient.

Please contact your attending doctor's office.