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Care tourism in Bulgaria

Would several hundred elderly Brits and Germans want to live and be cared for in Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast? Daniel Lorer and his wife think the answer to that question is yes and their business Orenda (motto: Healthcare by the sea) is looking for a strategic partner.
March 27, 2014

Polish Mandatory Health Insurance/Reform: Presentation, Joe Ryan, CFO, Medicover

Joe has 17 years experience as CFO of Medicover, the only Pan-East European provider of comprehensive medical services from insurance to hospitals, ambulatory centres and diagnostics. Medicover is active across Poland, Germany, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Belarus, the Balkans and other ex-Soviet republics. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.
March 13, 2014

Bribery in healthcare

The vast majority of bribes paid by citizens in Europe have to do with access to healthcare, according to an EU anti-corruption report. Healthcare and pharma businesses in Europe are also the most likely of any industry, with 77% agreeing, to think that corruption is widespread in their country. The report puts the total cost of corruption in the EU at €120bn - a little less than the annual EU budget. We look at the underlying numbers.
February 7, 2014

Bulgarian hospital group to raise €40m for expansion

City Hospital, the second-largest private Bulgarian hospital group, plans to raise €40m to build two new hospitals. We talk to CEO Ilian Grigorov about the group, the Bulgarian market and the future. Ilian and his colleagues will also be joining us at the annual Healthcare Europa conference on March 13, 2014.
January 20, 2014

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, Chief Executive, Euromedic

How are players dependent on a shrinking public purse in South and East Europe reacting? Who better to ask than Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO of Euromedic? The company offers imaging, labs and oncology services in 15 countries, from Ireland and Portugal in the West to Russia and Turkey in the East.
April 15, 2013

Largest private hospital in Bulgaria for sale

Tokuda, the largest private hospital in Bulgaria - in fact, the largest in all of the former Warsaw Pact countries - is for sale. The 1,000-bed facility has a contract with the national health insurance fund.
November 16, 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

New CEO at Euromedic

Big imaging services provider Euromedic International has appointed Dimitris Moulavasilis as its new CEO, following the departure earlier in 2012 of Richard di Benedetto. A CFO has yet to be announced, but has been selected.
September 25, 2012

Private individuals shoulder healthcare burden

OECD figures for the early years of the recession show individuals paying more out-of-pocket (OOP) and on private medical insurance (PMI) as growth in public expenditure slowed to a halt. But statistics are often uncertain - DG Ecofin and the IMF disagreed publicly on stats for country healthcare spending at a recent conference.
June 28, 2012

New cancer centre for Romania

What is claimed to be the first specialised private cancer hospital in Romania has just opened in Brasov. We talk to the doctor behind the project, Aurel Tudose.
June 21, 2012
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