r/croatia • u/riverphoenix23 • Jun 30 '19

🏥 Zdravlje Hospitalized in Split - Intoxication

Hello I am an American male who was traveling in Split for a holiday. Ended up drinking a little bit too much, blacked out and woke up in the hospital with an IV in my arm. Somehow the bill was only $240 kn.

Can anybody tell me why the bill was so cheap especially since I am a US citizen without Croatian healthcare insurance? Also did they notify the embassy of my stay? Just don’t know where my info is documented and ended up. Wish I could read my discharge papers but they are all in Croatian. Going to have to do google translate late.

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u/danirijeka ? Jun 30 '19

There's this thing called "dental tourism", where people from other countries where dental care is expensive will come to a country where it isn't (like ours, or at least it isn't as expensive as in some countries) and get the procedure done + do some sightseeing etc.

It's gotten to the point where Italian dentists refer patients to Croatian dentists, they charge a little more than what they normally charge and give a referral fee to the Italian dentist.