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Value Based Reimbursement in Sweden: Presentation, Per Batelson, Founder, Global Health Partner

Per looks at a new alternative to the DRG which is spreading internationally and the implication for private operators. Under the new system the operator is paid a fee for the entire process from diagnosis to rehabilitation and has to pay for complications in the first two years. He looks at how his business, an international chain of clinics has responded. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.
March 15, 2013

From B2B to B2C: Presentation, Filippo Monteleone, Deputy Chief Executive, Generale de Sante

Filippo looks at how Générale de Santé, France’s largest private hospital group, is moving from seeing the doctor as the customer to one where the customer is the patient. He looks at the implications for corporate culture, treatment, the organisation of services and marketing.Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.
March 15, 2013

Romanian operators form insurance alliances

In a surprisingly synchronized move, the two leaders in the subscription healthcare services market in Romania have announced partnerships with insurance providers. This looks like a reaction to Bupa’s acquisition of Lux-Med in Poland.
March 13, 2013

Interview: Stuart Fletcher, Chief Executive, Bupa

A year after Stuart “international growth opportunity” Fletcher took on the top job, where is he taking Bupa? The not-for-profit group offers insurance, hospitals, nursing homes, homecare and chronic disease management across the world. We talk to Fletcher about its recently-released results for 2012.
March 13, 2013

Not compliant? No payment

France will stop paying for sleep apnoea treatments when patients are non-compliant. Homecare operators expect similar moves in other areas of oxygen therapy.
February 27, 2013

Regulations open up outpatient markets worth billions to private sector

New regulations governing how GP consortia buy healthcare services in England mean that services which are supplied under a contract which comes to an end in the outpatient sector will be thrown open to private competition from April 1, 2013. This is likely to include outpatient diagnostics, where contracts worth £100m a year are already being tendered out, and where the potential market for lab tests alone is probably worth close to £1bn.
February 19, 2013

Opportunity knocks if Norway moves right

One of the few countries not moving to the left in Europe is wealthy Norway, where the Red/Green alliance is likely to lose the autumn 2013 general election after a decade in power. The right wants to push patient choice. So what would this mean for Norwegian private healthcare?
February 15, 2013

EQT bids for Praktikertjanst

EQT has launched a surprise bid worth SEK6.7bn (€788m) for Praktikertjanst (PTJ), the Swedish cooperative owned by 2,210 doctors and dentists. Praktikertjanst chairman Anders Jonsson and the management board together rejected the bid. But will the owners take the offer? And what does it really value the company at?
February 13, 2013
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