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Another about turn in Romania

New Romanian health minister Ritli Ladislau plans to privatise statutory health insurance, say senior managers in large providers....
September 15, 2011

Swiss look down barrel of DRG gun

H+, the association which represents all hospitals in Switzerland and Sante Suisse, which represents most of the health insurers have failed to agree on the principles for DRG pricing which will be introduced in January 2012. Unless insurers and providers can reach agreement, there is a real danger of court cases and years of uncertainty. We talk to Rolf Luthi, secretary of PrivatKliniken Schweiz....
September 15, 2011

Left won’t hurt Danish private sector too much

If the left wins the Danish general election it will tax healthcare insurance and, for some diseases, double the waiting time before patients can go private at the state’s expense. What will be the impact of all that on the 3-4bn Dkr private healthcare sector? We talk to Martin Koch Pedersen, head of the Association of Private Hospitals and Clinics....
September 14, 2011

Interview: Tomáš Macháček, HealthReform

We interview Tomáš Machácek, head of the thinktank HealthReform and chief executive of KlientPRO, about the prospects for healthcare reform and the private sector in the Czech republic....
September 7, 2011

GOA price rises look more likely

The GOA prices (the very high prices paid by private healthcare insurers) on which German lab groups rely for a very large part of their profits are under growing threat on several fronts....
July 22, 2011

Interview: Jan Maarten van den Berg, inspector, Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg

Can you really define procedures and measure quality across a national healthcare system? The Dutch are now doing just this. Jan Maarten van den Berg, an inspector with the Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg says a recent pilot of 12 Dutch hospitals found that changing processes, defining essential information and quality measurements halved mortality rates for surgery. The new transparency is now transforming the hospital system, allowing insurers to create a competitive marketplace across eventually 90% of all procedures....
July 15, 2011

Ameos appoints Commerzbank to raise capital

German hospital and pyschiatric home chain Ameos has appointed Commerzbank on a non-exclusive basis. CEO Axel Paeger denies rumours that Ameos is for sale and explains why it is looking for a capital increase....
June 30, 2011

Medihealth aims at Poland

Medihelp, the Bupa insurance broker which claims an 80-90% of the market for high-end healthcare insurance sales in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, intends to move into Poland. President Zahal Levy claims his sales are growing at between 40-50% a year. He is also investigating launching a lower priced product for the middle classes....
June 29, 2011

Spanish hospitals face EBITDA drops but sales remain strong

The latest report from Antares Consulting makes fascinating reading. It reveals that EBITDA for the Spanish private, for profit hospitals fell by nearly a percentage point to just 10.1% in 2009. The authors expect a further similar drop in 2011.That hides some big variations. The administrative concessions had EBITDA of just 4%, compared to 11.8% for companies working mainly on public sector contracts and nearly as much for those working with insurers. Despite the recession, Antares reckons that things will improve from the second half of 2011 onwards. It estimates that private hospitals saw growth slow to 2.8% in 2010 and that sales came to nearly EUR6bn or just under 15% of the total market. We examine the report in more detail....
June 20, 2011
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