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I work in a Canadian hospital. We have OOC patients all the time...Out of Country. During their stay, they or their family get told to visit the business office to set up payment. The business office is a tiny, one person desk in the hospital. They will take payment directly or will correspond with your insurance provider. This is mostly for people with emergency and unplanned admissions. I'm not sure how it would work for elective procedures or med purchasing. You could probably walk into a walk in clinic and pay out of pocket as almost all with have debit/credit machines since some things aren't covered in Canada (travel vaccines for example).