Brazil’s largest hospital group by revenue continues to make acquisitions, its latest being a 203-bed facility in Bahia in the north-east of the country.
Under-fire NMC is understood to be open to offers for its large European fertility group Eugin Clinic in what could be one of Spain’s largest PE transactions of the year.
Brazilian hospital operator and holding company Evipar (Eustácio Vieira Participações) is investing R $400m (US $96m) into the construction of two new hospitals to be rented out to the country's largest healthcare providers.
This year, Brazilian healthcare has been characterised by a flurry of activity from two vertically integrated insurers in particular. The most intense competition has occurred in the affluent South, where providers are battling it out for market share.
Brazilian HMO Hapvida has acquired cooperative insurer-provider Medical Medicina Cooperativa Assistencial de Limeira (Medical) for R $294m ($ 70m) in the state of São Paulo.
European nursing home operator DomusVi has acquired two facilities in Chile through its subsidiary Acalis as part of a rapid expansion strategy across the region. This is the group's second acquisition in Latin America, as growth has otherwise been focused on greenfield. We speak to the CEO of Acalis Latam about the group's regional strategy.
The merger of lab and imaging specialist Diagnosticos da America (DASA) with São Paulo-based hospital network Rede Impar (RI) will create Brazil's second-largest provider of healthcare services by revenue. A market source tells HBI this could be with a view to an IPO next year.
Brazilian vertically integrated payor-provider Grupo Notre Dame Intermédica (GNDI) has acquired Clinipam, an operator in the South of Brazil, as it attempts to keep pace with rival Hapvida. The two are battling it out for market share on the most competitive part of the market.
UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the largest private healthcare company in the world by revenue ($226bn) and owner of Brazilian insurer Amil, has replaced the CEO of its Brazilian operations with an executive from Amil itself. The change coincides with the group's Q3 results.
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