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What insurers really think

Everyone, apart from its 60,000 well paid specialist doctors find the German healthcare system extraordinarily frustrating. But payors remain in a class of their own. A senior manager in one of the largest Krankenkasse told us what life was really like - in exchange for anonymity.
May 30, 2012

Denmark mulls MRI outsourcing

Despite a lurch to the left with its new government, Denmark looks set to outsource more healthcare services, particularly MRI, despite attacking private hospitals.
May 30, 2012

Will Turkish government enforce new ceiling rules?

The Turkish government may start to impose penalties on private hospitals overcharging patients. Meanwhile, the prices that can charge patients who are part paid by the state has risen and the Ministry of Health is indicating that it will allow more newly qualified doctors to work in the private sector.
May 30, 2012

Ribera Salud to sell Torrejon de Ardoz Hospital

Ribera Salud, the beleaguered hospital management group, is trying to sell its rights at the administrative concession Torrejon de Ardoz in Madrid. This is a long-term contract for nearly 20 years to run and operate this large new hospital.
May 30, 2012

Valencia set to outsource

The public healthcare sector in Valencia is preparing to outsource a very wide range of non-medical services, according to Luis Barcia at Tich Consulting. He says that other Spanish regions are now urgently looking at adopting the Valencia Alzira model.
May 30, 2012

Private sector grows in Bulgaria

The private hospital sector in Bulgaria continues to grow according to Illian Grigorov, CEO of City Hospitals who plans to plan to open a 60 bed cardiac and vascular centre in Sofia this autumn and a 90 bed hospital in Varna for 2013/2014. That means competing with foreign hospitals.
May 30, 2012

Limbach faces resistance to new plans

The highly secretive Labor Limbach group is attempting to centralise control under its new acting CEO Juergen Schwietzer. This has led to resistance.
May 30, 2012

Fresenius offer document pushes integrated care message

The offer document for Rhoen Klinikum claims that the industrial rationale for the acquisition of Rhoen is the setting up of an integrated care model to cover Germany.  The document is interesting for two reasons...
May 24, 2012

Interview: Nicky Lieberman, Head of Community Medicine, Clalit

Clalit, Israel’s largest HMO, claims to have cut the cost of treating diabetes by 40% per patient in the last 6-7 years. We talk to head of community medicine, Nicky Lieberman. Given that diabetes already swallows around a tenth of West European healthcare budgets, this is an extraordinary claim. And this is not some tiny pilot. Clalit has 14 hospitals, 1,400 community outpatient clinics and its own pharmacy and diagnostic networks serving 4 million members.
May 23, 2012
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