Patient financing for UAE plastic surgery and dermatology clinics

Aesthetic medicine runs on different economics than most of healthcare: what a plastic surgery or dermatology clinic sells is elective, priced upfront, and easy to postpone. That's exactly where patient financing for UAE clinics does the most work. This is how point-of-care financing fits a plastic surgery or dermatology practice specifically, whether patients come in through cosmetic treatments or a dermatology referral.

Most of your price list sits inside one band

Surgical procedures such as rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, or body contouring, and longer non-surgical treatment courses such as laser resurfacing or a series of skin treatments, mostly land somewhere between AED 10K and 150K. That's the exact band patient financing covers, over 2 to 48 months, subject to approval. A patient doesn't need a lump sum in the bank on consultation day. They see the total cost and every fee at your desk, apply with an Emirates ID, and get a decision in minutes.

What settles the cost conversation at consultation

The QR code sits on the consultation desk, not at a separate billing appointment held for another day. A patient scans it, applies with their Emirates ID, and has an answer before the consultation ends. Your clinic is paid the full treatment value upfront, generally within one business day of disbursement and up to 48 hours after treatment confirmation, and carries no credit or collection risk if a repayment is later missed — that risk sits between the patient and Mashreq, the licensed UAE bank that provides the financing.

Multi-session courses are the harder case

A single procedure is a single decision. A course, several sessions of the same non-surgical treatment spread over months, is a series of decisions, and a patient can stop midway through for cost reasons alone, leaving a treatment plan unfinished. One financed plan covers the whole course in a single approval, so the patient commits once and your clinic is paid the full course value upfront rather than session by session.

Billing per session vs financing the course upfront

For your clinic	Billing per session	Financing the course upfront
Cash timing	Arrives session by session	Full course value upfront, generally within one business day of disbursement
Risk of an unfinished course	Real — a patient can stop halfway	No credit or collection risk on the amount already settled
Patient's decision	Re-decides before every session	Decides once, before the first session
Admin	An invoice per visit	One approval, visible in your dashboard

Aesthetic facilities and the procedures they offer are licensed and regulated in the UAE — by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) in Dubai and the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) federally — including rules on how medical treatments and medicines can be advertised to patients. This guide, like the rest of the Hazel site, describes financing terms and procedure categories, not specific medicines or their pricing.

What the patient sees

• They scan a QR code in the consultation room and apply with their Emirates ID — no bank visit.
• A decision arrives in minutes, while they're still in the room.
• Plans cover AED 10K to 150K over 2–48 months, subject to approval.
• The total cost and every fee appear on one screen before they commit. Nothing changes after they say yes.
• Patients who want to check first can run a free 3-minute soft eligibility pre-check at hazelpay.ai/eligibility.

The bottom line

The procedures your clinic performs already sit inside the band where paying in full stops being realistic for a lot of patients. Put a second answer in the consultation room, and courses that used to stall after one session can run to completion. Register your clinic, it takes about five minutes.

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