The national assembly of the Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung has decided to put in place a floor of 93.1% in the fourth quarter of 2012. Lab groups are scratching their heads as to precisely what this means. But many reckon it is bad news.
A new start up is looking to raise money to launch a blood donor business in Germany where blood fetches €80-100 per 250ml. It will compete with the German Red Cross.
Investment bankers SEB and JP Morgan are doing soft pre-marketing to selected private equity funds, say informed sources, at a lower than expected price.
Healthcare property fund IMMAC Capital with over €1bn under management in Germany and Austria, is scoping out potential deals in the UK, while mulling over entering the Dutch and Belgian markets. We spoke to Immac to find out their thoughts on the market.
Israeli insurer Clalit claims that it has cut the cost of diabetes from 3.5 times the average patient to just twice, a saving of 40%, by providing strong chronic disease management programmes and more drugs upfront...
The past decade has seen consistent and measured healthcare reform change in only one West European country - the Netherlands. How far does the fall of the right wing government imperil Dutch healthcare reform and damage the consensus which has enabled a market-driven system to emerge?
Where and how fast will e-prescriptions take off? What impact will they have? We talk to Fabian Torres, Global Healthcare Director at IT and business process outsourcing firm Steria, which has been involved in the field for over two decades.
British real estate investment firm MedicX has indefinitely postponed plans to create a first European fund. German-Dutch fund manager Euro Ejendomme has decided to abandon healthcare altogether. We talk to the companies to find out why - and whether this bodes poorly for the healthcare real estate market.
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