The article deals with the basic administrative directives issued by the RF government, Ministries of Health and Defence that regulate the paid medical services to be rendered by the SE units. It draws the SE units leaders' attention to the provision that at the first stage of work the most important is the certification of the unit's medical activities and obtaining a licence thereof. The paper also offers the list of basic documents compiled by the leading SE experts, lawyers and economists, focusing on the accounting procedures for contracted services. It is emphasised that the business-like organisation of work in a number of SE units has netted additional sums of money to solve the problems of material and equipment development and civilian personnel stimulation.