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Swiss Medical Network subsidiary to become country’s first payor-provider

Hôpital du Jura Bernois, a subsidiary of Switzerland's second largest hospital group Swiss Medical Network, is to become the country's first integrated payor-provider, after health insurer Visana bought a 32.4% stake. From January 1 2023 it will offer insurance alongside its hospital and outpatient services to inhabitants of the Jura Arc region.
October 28, 2022

Is Elliott stake a step towards Helios breakoff?

American investment management firm Elliott has taken a minority stake in Fresenius Helios, the largest hospital group in Europe by revenue. The move prompts fresh questions about Fresenius' new CEO's intentions for the company.
October 28, 2022

The price of keeping up with care costs?

Care is getting more expensive. Insurance premiums are set to go up 10% internationally next year. People are living longer, more sedentary lives, and these are unsurprisingly characterised by an increase in chronic diseases. You might expect that as a population ages healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP will have to go up. There are, after all, surely limits on the efficiencies which can be made. This, it seems, is not necessarily the case.
October 21, 2022

Opportunities abound as Saudi Arabia plans $13bn private healthcare expansion

Saudi Arabia’s health ministry is making $13bn (SR48bn) plans for 100 healthcare projects that will involve the private sector. The public-private partnership proposals include constructing two new medical cities, a project to provide 900 beds for medical rehabilitation, and long-term care services, and it looks like foreign investors are actively being courted.
October 21, 2022

FutureLife enters Spain and Italy

FutureLife, the Czech Republic-based fertility company, has entered Spain and Italy with its latest acquisition. Owned by PE companies CVC and Hartenberg holding, the group has acquired Institut Marquès (IM), an assisted reproduction company based in Barcelona with clinics in Spain and Italy.
October 21, 2022

Henry Dunant-Euromedica merger unlikely to sell for three years

The company formed as a result of the merger between Euromedica and Imithea, the parent company of Henry Dunant, Greece’s largest private hospital, is unlikely to sell for three years, HBI hears. Click here to read our reports on the for-profit hospital sector, and here to read more about Euromedica, and here to read more […]
October 14, 2022

CVC to buy back Quironsalud?

Rumours circulate that Quironsalud, the Spanish hospital subsidiary of hospital chain Fresenius Helios, may be sold to private equity firm CVC or KKR, HBI hears. But others say the new CEO of Helios' parent, Fresenius SE, is unlikely to go for the strategy and suggest the dialysis arm could be put on the block instead.
October 14, 2022
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