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FREE BLOG On price cuts

The notion that healthcare would be protected from cuts is looking increasingly silly.
October 16, 2012

Rhoen fails to name Pfoehler sucessor

Rhoen Klinikum has lost Chief Executive Wolfgang Pfoehler and Chief Financial Officer Erik Hamann. Both men quit after Fresenius decided not to renew its bid for the hospital chain, the second-largest in Germany. It is still not clear who will replace Pfoehler.
October 16, 2012

Buurtzorg falters in Sweden

Innovative Dutch medical homecare provider Buurtzorg has entered Sweden - and hit a series of problems that demonstrate just how hard it is in Europe to export winning business models.
October 5, 2012

Romanian roundabout derails reform (again)

The great hope for Romanian reform, Minister of Health Vasile Cepoi, has resigned due to a possible conflict of interest involving his wife. This means that the reform process has again been halted. Prime Minister Victor Ponta takes over until the December elections. Meanwhile, new operators are piling in, prompting a lively debate on how fast the private healthcare sector is growing.
October 5, 2012

Functional medicine – a new opportunity for private healthcare

The US Institute of Functional Medicine is planning to open its first office in Europe. The movement is now using an individual’s genome to tackle many illnesses, often through the use of complex dietary supplements, and is big business in the USA. Per Batelson, former CEO of Capio Group and founder of international clinic chain Global Health Partner, says that it opens up a vast new market in the prevention and handling of chronic illnesses at a primary care level. Meanwhile, a German lab operator tells us that tests paid for privately, often with a genetic element, are growing in value by anything from 10% to over 35% a year.
October 5, 2012

Still no clear future for Greek hospitals

The big four private Greek hospitals still face a very uncertain future. Still, there is a faint dawning of hope: the government has announced that it will cut public healthcare expenditure by €2bn. Greek health spending is at 5.5% of GDP, already less than half that of France or the UK.
October 4, 2012

Interview: Peter Lackner, Director, Uniqa International

Peter Lackner is a board member at Vienna-based pan-European general insurer Uniqa International. Uniqa has over half the €1.7bn Austrian 2011 private medical insurance (PMI) market, with €814m of premiums written in 2011. The company sells PMI in nine of its 16 East European operations. It also owns PremiQaMed, the largest private hospital chain in Austria. We talk with Lackner about the prospects for PMI in the region and Uniqa's country-by-country performance.
October 3, 2012

Italian PPP market to grow at 25% CAGR

Whole public hospital departments are being outsourced to the private sector. Elsewhere, we should see big growth in smaller PPP projects throughout Italy.
October 3, 2012
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