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Greek bank Piraeus interested in Bioiatriki to form integrated payor-provider

Piraeus, Greece’s largest bank, has approached Bioiatriki, Greece’s largest for-profit primary care group, with the intention of acquiring it and integrating it with the insurer it bought last year, Ethniki Insurance, to form a major payor-provider which would become the largest for-profit healthcare provider in the country. 
January 27, 2026

Revenue distribution of top 100 hospital groups in EMEA by country

This week’s infographic aggregates the 2024 total revenues of the top 100 hospital groups across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, segmented by country, exposing distinct concentrations of market size and investment intensity.  The data has been sourced from the HBI Intelligence database. Germany commands a dominant position with €22.6 billion in hospital revenues, over […]
September 18, 2025

Troubled waters, yet growth potential in Greece’s private health insurance market

Private health insurers in Greece are in the midst of a financial crisis.  Reports from a few weeks ago indicated that insurance premiums could rise by up to 14% in 2025, affecting around 1.2 million policyholders. On January 15, following public backlash and government pressure, insurers revised 2025 premium hikes to an average of 7% for lifelong policies, down from 14.6%. Leading health insurance providers like Ethniki Asfalistiki, Eurolife, Generali, and Allianz adjusted their increases, with others expected to follow.
January 17, 2025

HBI News Round Up, 21st June 2024

In this HBI News Round Up, we look at the outcome of Dutch primary care chain Co-Med’s bankruptcy hearing in the Netherlands, French real estate investor Transitions Europe’s entry into Spain’s care home sector, PE firm Columna Capital's latest €290m raise, Spanish hospital group Ribera Salud’s acquisition of Covadonga Hospital in Spain, the extension of the Greek government-backed EquiFund-2 programme to finance life sciences and healthcare start-ups, real estate investor PGIM Real Estate’s acquisition of UK senior housing provider Signature Senior Lifestyle, the first strike by public sector healthcare workers in Sweden in 16 years, and pan-Asian hospital group IHH's desire to enter Vietnam and Indonesia. 
June 21, 2024

Interview: Dr. Volker Wendel, Sanoptis

Dr. Volker Wendel founded Sanoptis in 2018 in Switzerland with Carsten Horn. Six years later, the group has grown to more than 400 locations across six European countries. The group was initially backed by PE firm Telemos Capital, who then sold it to Belgian holding company Group Bruxelles Lambert (in 2022). Wendel explains to us how the group is able to add value to ophthalmologists who join the network and shares which areas the group will be focusing on in the coming years.
May 22, 2024

Top 5 European ophthalmology players

This infographic showcases Europe's top 5 ophthalmology players by revenue in the reporting period 2018–2022: Veonet Group, Sanoptis, Artemis Augenkliniken, Clinica Baviera, and Optegra.
April 12, 2024

Big Greek exits rumoured, despite strong market

Rumours of a big hospital sell-off have started circulating in Greece, with Farallon (formally main creditor of and now main shareholder in Euromedica) and Luxembourg-based PE firm CVC (Hellenic Healthcare Group hospitals) both potentially looking to exit. The moves could trigger a wave of deals.
January 19, 2024

Henry Dunant to take over Euromedica, not merge with it

Hemithea (formerly Imithea), the parent company of Greece’s largest private hospital Henry Dunant, is set to take over the secondary care activities of healthcare group Euromedica, as opposed to merging with it, among a flurry of possible Greek hospital sales.
January 12, 2024
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