Find a specialty clinic in Bielbienne
Biel/Bienne is Switzerland's largest officially bilingual city, and its specialty clinic scene reflects that duality: signage, intake forms and consultations routinely switch between German and French, which matters when you are booking an ophthalmologist or a paediatrician. PillsCard lists five verified specialty practices serving a catchment of roughly 55,000 residents plus commuters from the Seeland, the Bernese Jura and nearby French-speaking communes. Clinics cluster near the Bahnhof/Gare and along the Nidaugasse–Rue de Nidau axis, with a secondary node around the Neumarkt and the lakefront Schwanenkolonie district. The mix skews toward independent single-specialty practices rather than large multidisciplinary groups, and most accept patients from both the Canton of Bern and neighbouring Neuchâtel and Jura without administrative friction.
The landscape is fragmented and practitioner-led rather than chain-dominated. Ophthalmology is the deepest single-specialty vertical: Augenärzte AG Biel/Bienne runs a group practice near the city centre offering cataract and refractive work-ups, while Augenzentrum Vernissage covers general and surgical eye care with an in-house diagnostic suite. Family medicine and paediatrics are represented by Dr. med. Urs Kalberer and by Kinderarztpraxis Schwanenkolonie / Cabinet Pédiatrique Colonie des Cygnes, the latter explicitly branded in both languages and popular with francophone families along the lake. Fertility care is anchored by Kinderwunschpraxis Biel/Bienne / Médecine de la fertilité Biel/Bienne, which handles IUI and IVF work-ups and refers surgical cases on to Bern or Neuchâtel. Most clinics maintain informal referral links with Spitalzentrum Biel.
Pricing & coverage
Fees follow the national TARMED/TARDOC tariff, so out-of-pocket differences between clinics are modest. A standard specialist consultation in Biel/Bienne runs CHF 120–200; a paediatric well-child visit CHF 90–150; a cataract phacoemulsification CHF 2,500–4,000 per eye when billed to KVG; and an IVF cycle CHF 6,000–9,500 excluding medication. KVG (compulsory basic insurance) covers medically indicated specialist care after your annual franchise (CHF 300–2,500) plus a 10% co-payment, capped at CHF 700 per year. IVF, refractive lens exchange and most cosmetic ophthalmology fall outside KVG. Medicines are regulated and priced by Swissmedic — verify the correct authority at https://www.swissmedic.ch — and the Federal Office of Public Health.
Emergencies & out-of-hours care
For life-threatening emergencies call 144 (medical) or 112 (pan-European); police is 117 and fire 118. Out-of-hours specialty care in Biel/Bienne is coordinated through Spitalzentrum Biel / Centre hospitalier Bienne on Vogelsang, which runs the 24-hour Notfall/urgences and accepts walk-ins after clinic hours. For non-life-threatening advice, the cantonal medical hotline MEDPHONE (0900 57 67 47) triages callers in German and French and can dispatch a duty doctor. Dental emergencies are handled by the SSO Bern rota. Pharmacies operate a rotating night service posted in every pharmacy window and on apotheken.ch.
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This directory is informational only and is not medical advice. Always consult a licensed specialty clinic in Biel/Bienne for individual diagnosis, treatment or prescribing decisions.