As predicted by HBI, India-based multi-speciality healthcare provider Manipal Hospitals has agreed to acquire 100% of Columbia Asia's Indian hospitals from Columbia Pacific Management. The deal is valued at Rs 2,100 crore ($282m) including debt.
In what has been a tough year for dentists across Europe, UK dental partnership group Dentex has raised a further £20m from its major shareholder "to continue success in the corporate dental world". HBI speaks to CEO Barry Lanesman to find out more.
The biggest for-profit hospital operators in Australia, Hungary and Norway have all appointed new CEOs internally from communications roles or backgrounds in 2020. Is this indicative of a wider trend in the healthcare sector? The three women appointed tell HBI why it makes sense.
Germany for-profit hospital group Asklepios's €730m Schuldschein, a debt instrument raised last week, has nothing to do with the potential negative financial impact of COVID-19 in Q4, CFO Hafid Rifi tells HBI, though he adds that occupancy in the hospital sector is falling. 95% of the amount will be used to refinance the Rhoen acquisition financing.
The UK's largest teleradiology provider Medica has acquired Global Diagnostics Ireland (GDI), which does eye screening, diagnostic managed services and teleradiology. With only a minority of revenue from the latter, we ask CEO Stuart Quin what this expansion outside of Medica's core business means for its strategy.
Spain-based fertility group IVF life says it has 'merged' with UK-based Reproductive Health Group. HBI speaks to a UK-based operator source who speculates as to why.
Greater scrutiny is being brought to bear on the use of integrated models in Chile - a practice where any impropriety is sidestepped through the use of holding companies. Where does this leave the likes of UnitedHealth Group-owned Banmedica, which has just closed four health centres in its Vidaintegra network - and why is public concern mounting about private insurers profits?
Netherlands-based medicalised homecare provider and pharmaceutical distributor Mediq is for sale, with a potential €1.2bn price tag. With non-binding bids for the pan-European group due in the first week of November, HBI hears that a private equity buyer is almost certain with little interest from strategic parties.
Chinese private hospital operator Guodan Healthcare has refiled plans to IPO on the Hong Kong exchange and, if successful, will become the twelfth Chinese hospital in the country to list. But it's a crowded space and most of the 11 other stocks have underperformed in the last four years as our infographic shows.
The Polish national payor has recommended that electives be delayed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections. HBI hears that after a good summer of business people are again starting to avoid physical care. That could plunge the market back into the dark months of lockdown, which saw one operator considering firing 70% of its staff.
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