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Reprieve for German labs

Negotiations over the controversial GOA rate, the tariff paid for medical services by private insurers in Germany have broken down after doctor’s association the Bundesärztekammer failed to reach agreement with the insurers. That is bad news for most providers, who had hoped for a hike of roughly eight percentage points, but good news for labs who feared drops of 30-70% for standard tests. Meanwhile, labs say the danger of a big cut in the rate paid by statutory insurers has receded.
March 21, 2016

French hospital insurer follows providers abroad

Groupe Sham, France’s largest medical liability insurer, expanded to Spain in 2014 and to Italy last year and is targeting new markets around the Mediterranean. With already 9% market share in the medical liability sector in Europe, the group wants to take advantage of the internationalisation of healthcare provision.
March 21, 2016

Healthcare real estate investors break barriers

The internationalisation of healthcare real estate is gathering pace, according to all the signs at MIPIM, the world’s largest property conference. Numerous investors told Healthcare Europa they were looking beyond their core markets. This follows recent foreign ventures by the healthcare REITs Aedifica, Cofinimmo, Primary Health Properties (PHP) and Medical Properties Trust (MPT). We look at why.
March 21, 2016

Tunisia to launch major healthcare reform programme in 2017

Tunisia benefits from a healthcare system better than many countries with similar income levels. In 2013, total healthcare expenditure amounted to 7.1% of GDP –or 493 TND ($246) per capita and 90% of the population has access to a form of universal insurance. Yet, Moncef Boussannouga Zammouri, head of KPMG Tunisia, says the country suffers from a poorly performing public healthcare sector.
March 21, 2016

Turkish ophthalmology chain targets Ghana as part of $50m investment

Turkish ophthalmology chain Batigoz Health Group, which already has clinics in several European contries, is planning to strengthen its presence in a $50m expansion. The group says it is about to receive private equity funding from a major Gulf investor and that it aims to reach Ghana by 2017. It also targets medical tourism. We speak to CEO Pinar Massena.
March 21, 2016

MCO shock for French operators

The French government has announced an effective average cut in the private MCO tariff of 2.15 percentage points, on top of last year’s cut of 2.5 percentage points. Meanwhile, the MIGAC, a big package of payments of which well over 90% goes to the public sector, has been upped by 1.7pc leaving the private sector screaming unfair. But the picture is better than it looks.
March 14, 2016

First Bangladeshi hospital IPO

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka has filed for the first healthcare services IPO in Bangladesh, the South Asian country of 156m. On 1 March 2016 it signed its issue management services agreement with local investment groups ICB and AFC.
March 11, 2016

Doctoralia innovates across Latin America

In an unusual innovation, Doctoralia, the international rating and online booking platform, is partnering with patient associations and getting doctors to rate doctors as part of an awards programme. Owned by its Spanish founders, Doctoralia is now active in over 20 countries, particularly Latin America. It claims patients book 100,000 appointments a month on its platform. We interview Frederic Llordachs, co-founder of Doctoralia. This month, we are also writing a detailed survey of how such sites are developing in Emerging Markets from Chile to China.
March 11, 2016
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