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Occupational healthcare “cuts cost of absenteeism by half”

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the working patterns and environments of every type of workforce, resulting in big hits to free-for-service (FFS) business models and new opportunities in remote care. Panellists from Medicover, Medigold and Qualitas discussed this and how good occupational healthcare can reduce the costs of absenteeism by half, at last week's HBI Big Picture Seminar.

Manipal buys Columbia Asia in India

As predicted by HBI, India-based multi-speciality healthcare provider Manipal Hospitals has agreed to acquire 100% of Columbia Asia's Indian hospitals from Columbia Pacific Management. The deal is valued at Rs 2,100 crore ($282m) including debt.

Integrated model ‘alive and kicking’ despite Banmedica closures

Greater scrutiny is being brought to bear on the use of integrated models in Chile - a practice where any impropriety is sidestepped through the use of holding companies. Where does this leave the likes of UnitedHealth Group-owned Banmedica, which has just closed four health centres in its Vidaintegra network - and why is public concern mounting about private insurers profits?

Another Chinese hospital IPO in Hong Kong but market looks flat

Chinese private hospital operator Guodan Healthcare has refiled plans to IPO on the Hong Kong exchange and, if successful, will become the twelfth Chinese hospital in the country to list. But it's a crowded space and most of the 11 other stocks have underperformed in the last four years as our infographic shows.

Interview: Massimiliano Colella, CEO, Evercare Group

We talk to the CEO of Evercare Group, the diverse conglomerate of South Asia and African hospitals that make up the $1bn Evercare Health Fund originally raised by Abraaj before TPG's takeover in 2019. Colella talks strategic priorities including 'turning Evercare from a fund into a real company', recent management departures, the platform today and why his own lack of emerging market healthcare service experience doesn't matter for this job.

Your November Connect edition of Deals + Insights

Click here to see your November Connect edition of Deals + Insights This November edition sees operators in Europe prepare for an incoming second wave of coronavirus. HBI has a long-read analysis of that at a subsector level, plus the month’s biggest stories including the €1.2bn sale of Mediq, a potential IDH carve up, and […]

Evercare Lagos hospital to open in December

Evercare Group, the operating platform held by the (ex-Abraaj) $1bn Evercare Health Fund, aims to open its Lagos hospital in December this year, Evercare Group CEO Massimiliano Colella tells HBI.

NMC could sell by April 2021; Aspen/Eugin by January

NMC Health's administrators Alvarez & Marsal expect to complete a lender-led restructuring or sale of the group by April 2021, and sales of non-core assets - UK hospital chain Aspen Healthcare and international IVF group Eugin - much sooner. It's also revealed the COVID-19 impact on the group's healthcare services revenue.

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