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Value Based Reimbursement in Sweden: Presentation, Per Batelson, Founder, Global Health Partner

Per looks at a new alternative to the DRG which is spreading internationally and the implication for private operators. Under the new system the operator is paid a fee for the entire process from diagnosis to rehabilitation and has to pay for complications in the first two years. He looks at how his business, an international chain of clinics has responded. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.
March 15, 2013

EQT bids for Praktikertjanst

EQT has launched a surprise bid worth SEK6.7bn (€788m) for Praktikertjanst (PTJ), the Swedish cooperative owned by 2,210 doctors and dentists. Praktikertjanst chairman Anders Jonsson and the management board together rejected the bid. But will the owners take the offer? And what does it really value the company at?
February 13, 2013

Report: How rating sites will change healthcare

TripAdvisor is changing how the travel industry treats customers. Is the same likely to happen to healthcare services? We look at the new review websites growing fast across Europe, propelled by expanding patient choice. What impact will they have on the profession and on private operators? Will they change the market?
February 1, 2013

Global Health Partner’s second chance

The business model was ambitious: build a chain of holistic clinics across the world, each focused on a particular condition, and then demonstrate that you are the national best for back pain, orthopaedics or complex dentistry. But Swedish group Global Health Partner has conspicuously failed to deliver, with an EBIT loss after write-downs of SEK 50m on sales of SEK 138m in the first nine months of 2012. The share price halved over the year. We look at whether new CEO Marianne Dicander Alexandersson can turn it around.
January 14, 2013

LoV isn’t all you need

Plans by the Swedish government to increase the adoption of freedom-of-choice (LoV) laws by municipalities may be in vain, according to a study by academic Axel Cronert. Little to no growth can be expected in 2013.
October 19, 2012

FREE BLOG On price cuts

The notion that healthcare would be protected from cuts is looking increasingly silly.
October 16, 2012

Buurtzorg falters in Sweden

Innovative Dutch medical homecare provider Buurtzorg has entered Sweden - and hit a series of problems that demonstrate just how hard it is in Europe to export winning business models.
October 5, 2012

Report: Psychiatry: The private sector expands across Europe

Across Europe, a nascent private sector is expanding into psychiatric care provision for the continent’s public payors. But with all major markets still stuck in the economic doldrums, are they fighting for a shrinking slice of the pie? Healthcare Europa takes a look at select markets to see how far private operators are making inroads into mental healthcare.
October 2, 2012

The good, the bad and the ugly

The health systems of the OECD have been ranked. The winners: France, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The losers: Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria and the Czech Republic. We talk to Eric N. Tchouaket, principal author of the academic ranking study, to find out what this tells us about these health systems.
June 29, 2012

Lab outsourcing pushed in Sweden

Hospitals should seriously consider outsourcing their labs says a new report, Konkurrens inom laboratorietjänster, from the Swedish Competition Authority. Could this lead to a lab outsourcing boom?
June 29, 2012
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