Turkey
TR
Healthcare System
Universal health insurance through SGK since 2008 healthcare reform. Growing medical tourism destination (~2M medical tourists/year).
- System Type
- Universal single-payer with private supplement
- Regulatory Body
- TİTCK (Türkiye İlaç ve Tıbbi Cihaz Kurumu / Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency)
- Data Protection
- KVKK (Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu / Personal Data Protection Law, modeled on GDPR)
- Currency
- TRY
- Emergency Number
- 112
- Languages
- tr
Coding Systems
diagnosis
ICD-10 (WHO base)
Turkey uses WHO ICD-10. SUT (Health Implementation Communiqué) adds Turkish procedure codes.
dental
FDI (ISO 3950)
Federation Dentaire Internationale two-digit notation
procedures
SUT
Sağlık Uygulama Tebliği (Health Implementation Communiqué) procedure codes
dental Procedures
SUT dental codes
Dental procedure codes within SUT
drugs
TITUBB/UTS
National pharmaceutical tracking system (İlaç Takip Sistemi)
Translation Corridors
TR→DE (most critical corridor: Turkish GKV members seeking care records for German health insurance) TR→NL (Turkish Dutch community) TR→AT (Turkish Austrian community) TR→GB (Turkish Cypriot/Turkish community NHS records) Medical tourism TO Turkey: DE, NL, UK, US patients — records needed back for home insurers
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