This new hospital/clinic is a great asset for the Cabarete and Sosua communities. The name was chosen when the founders were trying to locate in Cabarete, but they had problems aquiring the land so ended up building it in Sosua on the highway to Cabarete.
Like many expats, particularly those of advancing years, I have been concerned about the lack of a first class hospital/clinic near my home in Cabarete. I developed a hernia and was planning to have it operated on at the new Hospital Metropolitano in Santiago, but I decided to check out CMC that opened a week or so ago. The director of CMC is Dr. Robert Spitali, a brain surgeon morphed into an entrepreneur and hospital administrator. He has recruited a top staff from around the area. He gave me a tour of the place, including the two operating rooms and the patient hospital rooms. Beyond the excellent facilities, equipment and staff, the clincher for me was that they would take my U.S. insurance, while no other facility will.
It took a few days for them to nail down what they needed to claim directly with my insurance ( a process that no other medical facility I know is willing to do except when they already have an arrangement with the particular foreign insurer. I imagine once they've got more expereince dealing with foreign insurers the process will be reasonably automatic. If you can, bring a claim form from your insurer as well as you insurance card to speed it up. I went in for surgery yesterday morning. Since I had a spinal block I was able to observe the whole procedure and can confirm that that was a first class operating room and team. Where a lot of medical facilities fall down in the DR is the nursing and doctor attention that a patient gets once they are out of surgery. At CMC an hour didn't go by without my being check on by doctors and nurses, all of whom were extremely friendly (unlike what one might experience State side at times).
Ironically, since the hospital is brand new, they have not completed the lengthy process of getting approved by the ARS insurers in the DR. Dr. Spitali thinks it will take a couple of months to complete that process, In the meantime, if you've got foreign insurance, you are in luck.
Like many expats, particularly those of advancing years, I have been concerned about the lack of a first class hospital/clinic near my home in Cabarete. I developed a hernia and was planning to have it operated on at the new Hospital Metropolitano in Santiago, but I decided to check out CMC that opened a week or so ago. The director of CMC is Dr. Robert Spitali, a brain surgeon morphed into an entrepreneur and hospital administrator. He has recruited a top staff from around the area. He gave me a tour of the place, including the two operating rooms and the patient hospital rooms. Beyond the excellent facilities, equipment and staff, the clincher for me was that they would take my U.S. insurance, while no other facility will.
It took a few days for them to nail down what they needed to claim directly with my insurance ( a process that no other medical facility I know is willing to do except when they already have an arrangement with the particular foreign insurer. I imagine once they've got more expereince dealing with foreign insurers the process will be reasonably automatic. If you can, bring a claim form from your insurer as well as you insurance card to speed it up. I went in for surgery yesterday morning. Since I had a spinal block I was able to observe the whole procedure and can confirm that that was a first class operating room and team. Where a lot of medical facilities fall down in the DR is the nursing and doctor attention that a patient gets once they are out of surgery. At CMC an hour didn't go by without my being check on by doctors and nurses, all of whom were extremely friendly (unlike what one might experience State side at times).
Ironically, since the hospital is brand new, they have not completed the lengthy process of getting approved by the ARS insurers in the DR. Dr. Spitali thinks it will take a couple of months to complete that process, In the meantime, if you've got foreign insurance, you are in luck.
