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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

Healthcare Reform – Opportunity or Threat? Presentation, Nicolaus Henke, Global Leader of the Healthcare Systems and Services Practice, McKinsey

Nicolaus has unrivaled access to, and experience of, European payors. He examines the reform trajectory and likely budget growth in different European countries and considers what impact this will have for private hospitals, outsourcers and specialist service providers. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.
March 15, 2013

Fraud police target private sector in Lombardy

In Italy, a corruption scandal in the region of Lombardy has exploded into the private healthcare sector. The Guardia di Finanza - the Ministry of Finance’s branch of the police force - is investigating staff and offices in private clinics in Varese, while in Milan regional director of healthcare services Carlo Lucchina has had his offices raided. Indictments handed down by the Italian courts have hit the heads of local Aziende Sanitari Locali (ASLs), the local-level purchasers of healthcare services, as well as clinic directors and politicians.
January 4, 2013

Tosinvest’s San Raffaele to close

Italian clinic and rehabilitation chain San Raffaele, owned by holding company Tosinvest, has said that it will close on 30 December 2012. Employees for the chain have already been working for no pay since the beginning of November. Now the region of Lazio has further put off any decision about whether it will give the company enough money to cover owed wages.
December 17, 2012

Radical reform to follow as Italy uncovers massive healthcare corruption

Accusations of corruption, inefficiencies and hidden agendas are rife in Italian healthcare. The president of Lazio region has been forced to step down following a scandal; the government of Lombardy, a key private-sector stronghold, has also been rocked by allegations. The media has hounded Mario Monti, forcing him to walk back pro-private sector statements. As a backdrop to all of this, Health Minister Renato Balduzzi’s spending cuts are ravaging the private hospital sector.
November 30, 2012

Lukewarm for Labco

French lab group Labco has received about half a dozen offers in its first round. But none are thought to be anywhere near the €1.2bn that 18% shareholder 3i is said to want. EQT, which triggered the process with an unsolicited approach this summer, hasn't bid. Potential buyers tell us that Rothschild has conducted a rather "lackadaisical process" so far.
November 14, 2012

Italy socks private sector and shakes up procurement

Healthcare Europa can exclusively reveal a massive shake-up in Italian public-sector procurement. Meanwhile, national and regional governments have taken aim at the private hospital sector, with Lombardy planning to eliminate 1,800-2,400 private hospital beds.
October 31, 2012

What is going on in Lazio?

We talk to Luigi Amadio, director of non-profit research-led hospital Fondazione Santa Lucia. His is just one of the many providers - private and public - that are owed hundreds of millions of Euros by the Lazio regional health system.
October 19, 2012
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