Québec Medical Bridge
FRENPT

Business model

Medical recommendations must never be influenced by our compensation.

Patient → hospital

Medical fees paid directly

Patient → travel

Licensed provider or direct booking

Patient → coordination

$1,500–$3,500

Illustrative business-model assumption — not a published price.

What the fee would cover

  • Administrative intake
  • Coordination
  • Document organization
  • Translation coordination
  • Communication with the hospital
  • Scheduling coordination
  • Patient journey coordination
  • Return-document organization
  • Non-clinical support

A commercial agreement with a hospital would be considered only after legal, ethical, and compliance review. The model is not built on a per-surgery commission.

Unit economics

Hypothetical scenario for business-model evaluation.

  • 5 patients / month

    $12,500

  • 10 patients / month

    $25,000

  • 20 patients / month

    $50,000

Cost examples

  • Technology
  • Customer support
  • Professional insurance
  • Legal and compliance
  • Secure information management
  • Translation
  • Marketing
  • Administration
  • Patient coordination

Contribution calculator

Hypothetical scenario for business-model evaluation. This is not a forecast.

Revenue
$12,500
Total costs
$10,000
Operating contribution
$2,500
Estimated amount allocated to the social fund
$500

Proposed 90-day validation pilot

  1. Phase 0 — Legal and safety design

    • Legal review in Québec
    • Legal review in Brazil
    • Privacy assessment
    • Professional liability insurance review
    • Patient consent design
    • Hospital agreement templates
    • Emergency and complication protocols

  2. Phase 1 — Counterparts

    • Goal: 2 to 5 institutions, no exclusivity
    • Areas: orthopedics, spine, ophthalmology, urology

  3. Phase 2 — Operational prototype

    • Website, intake, request tracking
    • Secure document workflow
    • Multilingual support and a coordinator

  4. Phase 3 — Market test

    • Goal: 100 qualified inquiries
    • Measure volume, clinical areas, ability to pay, willingness to travel, response time, and proposal acceptance

  5. Phase 4 — First cases

    • Goal: 5 paying patients
    • Only after the legal and compliance structure is approved

  6. Phase 5 — Review

    • Clinical safety, satisfaction, viability, institutions, continuity, legal issues
    • Decision: go, modify, or stop

Metrics

Business

Fictional demonstration data. No real cases.

  • Qualified leads
  • Consultation requests
  • Hospital proposals
  • Conversion rate
  • Average coordination fee
  • Customer acquisition cost
  • Monthly revenue

Operations

Simulation. No real cases.

  • Hospital response time
  • Time from intake to proposal
  • Time from proposal to treatment
  • Document completion rate

Safety

Indicators to track. Figures shown are fictional.

  • Complications reported
  • Missing records
  • Continuity failures
  • Complaints
  • Privacy incidents

Impact

The fund does not exist yet.

  • Social fund balance
  • Patients subsidized
  • Percentage of profit allocated
  • Hospital contributions to subsidized cases