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Solid Nordic results suggest more IPOs

Nordic healthcare groups Capio, Attendo and Pihlajalinna have released solid annual results after floating in 2015. Political risk appears to be fading in Sweden and new public-private opportunities are under way in Finland. Could rivals like Ambea and Humana file for IPOs in 2016? We look at the figures.
March 2, 2016

French hospitals await MCO cut anxiously

French private hospitals are waiting anxiously to hear what the new MCO (medicine, surgery, obstetrics) rate will be. The figure should be announced tomorrow. Last year it was delayed by two weeks and effectively came to a cut of a disasterous 2.5 percentage points. So what is the betting on this year?
March 1, 2016

Better hopes for lab outsourcing

We talked to Charles Woler, who turned around French reference lab Biomnis and is now the CEO of bioDS - Biomnis holding company, part of Eurofins. He sees signs that governments are starting to think the unthinkable and that public sector outsourcing of lab tests could grow. Woler is also a panelist at our annual conference, Breaking Barriers 2016 conference.
January 28, 2016

French outpatient radiology set to consolidate

Didier Sensey, president of Numerix, a French X-ray and imagig service provider is interesting on the prospects for imaging services in France. The sector remains extremely fragmented with strict ownership laws limiting financial investors to 25% of equity. But he sees forces which will change that soon in this multi-billion euro sector.
January 21, 2016

Orpea buys Polish platform

As we exclusively forecast here, MEDI-System, the largest Polish nursing home group has now been sold. Orpea, the Pan-European nursing home chain is to buy the group which had 2015 sales of €10m. Orpea president Dr. Jean Claude Marian explains why East European countries have enough demand to support premium elderly care offer, and so why Orpea has bought Medi-system.
January 10, 2016

FREE BLOG Canadian pension funds sniffing around healthcare

We know that there is no shortage of institutional money destined for healthcare. For long term and defensively minded funds the attractions are obvious. The glut may also be about to grow as Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) joins the consortium looking to take Chinese operator, iKang, private. OTPP was also interested in the German lab group, synlab, last year. So are investors increasingly building portfolios across European and Emerging Market healthcare?
January 8, 2016

Abu Dhabi wealth fund invests in French hospital group

Investors are still willing to invest in French hospitals, despite cuts in tariffs. Vivalto Santé, the fourth largest group, has been bought by a consortium that includes Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Capital and French insurer of healthcare professionals, MACSF.
December 23, 2015

French supplementary insurance groups move into services

With hospital fees up 220% in ten years, French supplementary insurance groups are moving into specialties that see large amounts of private expenditure, such as ophthalmology and dentistry. One platform, Santéclair, which covers 10m people, is launching its orthopaedics network in January 2016 –introducing bundle payments and no excess costs for patients.
December 9, 2015

Measuring quality outcomes: the next frontier for competition?

Private health and care would be transformed if quality could be measured accurately in a way that patients could really understand. If measured, quality would then soar. And the sterile European private versus public debate would fade out as payers focused on quality outcomes and patient choice.
November 30, 2015
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