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Advent will not sell Regina Maria

Second-largest Romanian private hospital group Regina Maria will, contrary to rumours, not be sold by owner Advent International, according to our sources. Meanwhile, it looks like the private sector has been unscathed by the country’s various attempts at reforms.
June 29, 2013

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

Romanian operators form insurance alliances

In a surprisingly synchronized move, the two leaders in the subscription healthcare services market in Romania have announced partnerships with insurance providers. This looks like a reaction to Bupa’s acquisition of Lux-Med in Poland.
March 13, 2013

Biggest healthcare insurer in Romania to close doors

Insurer Aegon has bought the Romanian insurance arm of Eureko from Dutch group Achmea. Aegon has decided to close Eureko's healthcare insurance segment, the largest in Romania, with a run-off over the next year.
February 4, 2013

Andronescu denies sale

Florin Andronescu has categorically denied rumours that he and his wife have sold 38% of Sanador, the 400-bed hospital and outpatient clinic group in Bucharest.
February 1, 2013

Medicover ownership is now not-for-profit

The majority of shares in Medicover - the East European healthcare group that owns lab chain Synevo - have been put into a charitable trust: the Jonas and Christina af Jochnick Foundation. Jonas af Jochnick, 75, is a kind of Swedish Bill Gates. What does this mean for the future of the group?
November 7, 2012

Romanian roundabout derails reform (again)

The great hope for Romanian reform, Minister of Health Vasile Cepoi, has resigned due to a possible conflict of interest involving his wife. This means that the reform process has again been halted. Prime Minister Victor Ponta takes over until the December elections. Meanwhile, new operators are piling in, prompting a lively debate on how fast the private healthcare sector is growing.
October 5, 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
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