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Payors throw money at mental health

Psychotherapy, a highly fragmented market across Europe, has historically been mostly private pay. Waves of pandemic-related mental health crises are now forcing payors to multiply budgets or add new tariffs in countries from Czechia to Switzerland. Where's the opportunity?

Families to get free granny tech from next year

Next year, Germany will launch a new telemonitoring reimbursement scheme to give families and carers free homecare tech. A similar bill for chronic disease management in France also might squeeze its way into next year's health budget.

Payor reforms re-shape Kuwait’s private hospital market

Kuwait's private hospital market is undergoing a seismic change. Private insurance for local retirees, rolled out in late 2016, now accounts for a third of sales while in 2019/20 the government launched a PPP to move blue-collar foreign nationals out of the public system.

Why the low margin Danish nursing home sector is attracting attention

Denmark is a relatively small market, with a population of less than six million, and like the rest of the Nordics its politics can often be very hostile to for-profit operators. Despite this, the for-profit care home sector is growing despite relatively low returns. HBI talks to two market experts about the appeal and development of the Danish nursing home sector.

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