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Competition Commission “might force divestment”

The Competition Commission’s investigation into the UK private hospital sector has produced its first working papers. What have we learned from the published market surveys, profitability study and reports on Circle’s entry into established markets? Will the Competition Commission look to break the big groups up? Will the government look to restrict vertical integration?
June 5, 2013

Russian PMI – not as big as it looks

The Russian private medical insurance (PMI) market has been pegged at RUB 110bn (€2.7bn) - but is this the true size of the market? How is the private sector in Russia developing? Wolfgang Wand, Managing Partner at CKW Consult, and Khawar Mann, CEO of Medsi, talk to us about Russian healthcare.
April 9, 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

Interview: Stuart Fletcher, Chief Executive, Bupa

A year after Stuart “international growth opportunity” Fletcher took on the top job, where is he taking Bupa? The not-for-profit group offers insurance, hospitals, nursing homes, homecare and chronic disease management across the world. We talk to Fletcher about its recently-released results for 2012.
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

Interview: Alison Platt, Managing Director, International Markets Development, Bupa

UK insurer Bupa has just bought Polish clinic chain Lux Med for £325m. The move means that an insurer now owns the largest Polish private healthcare provider. This is a sea change for a private healthcare market where insurers have always been weak outsiders, while the country has been dominated by a combination of private subscription healthcare providers and a black market in public healthcare services. We talk to Alison Platt, the managing director of Bupa’s international operations, about vertical integration.
December 22, 2012

FREE BLOG PMI – the integrated model

You might think that private medical insurers would be good at controlling the cost of medical treatment. Nothing could be further from the truth, according to an industry insider.
November 8, 2012

Bupa plans vertical integration for Poland

Bupa is deadly serious about bidding for Lux-Med, the largest Polish subscription healthcare operator. But so are a couple of large private equity houses!
November 7, 2012

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

Spanish regions consider tax-deductible health insurance

Tax-deductible private healthcare has come to the Baleriac Islands. The Spanish Institute for the Development and Integration of Health (IDIS), a private-sector lobbying group, wants to expand the law elsewhere.
October 30, 2012
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