A Turkish clinic that reaches confirmed patient status, meaning the patient has agreed to the procedure, the date is set, the surgeon is booked, and then fails to collect payment is experiencing a failure that most operators attribute to patient flakiness. In most cases, they are wrong. The patient did not change their mind. The...
Turkish clinics collectively pay medical tourism agencies hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions every year. Most clinic operators could not tell you their blended commission rate. Fewer still have calculated what each agency relationship actually costs them once you include coordination overhead, complaint handling time, and payment float. The agencies know this. That information...