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Tariff cuts and new regulation hit Swiss imaging sector

Regulatory reforms and tariff cuts for diagnostic imaging services in Switzerland have hit the sector hard, more than halving annual revenue growth for the all-private outpatient sector and limiting organic expansion. Yet the impact has still not been as bad as first feared, a source tells us.
August 27, 2019

Outsourcing boosts Sonic’s growth

Australian lab group Sonic Healthcare has seen outsourcing boost its organic growth in both the UK and Swiss markets, adding that it has acquisitions lined up in the €1bn German anatomical pathology market. Commentators say the company is the true consolidator of the German market. The group saw its strongest European growth in the UK […]
August 22, 2019

UnitedHealth Group “is coming to Europe”

A source close to US giant UnitedHealth Group, the largest private healthcare company in the world with 2018 revenues of $228bn, tells us to expect substantial expansion in Europe within the next 3-5 years.
August 22, 2019

Private equity bids for The Philippines’ largest hospital group

American private equity giants are reportedly vying for a minority stake in Metro Pacific Hospitals, the largest private hospital group in The Philippines, but are valuing the group at a lower price than initially speculated. Euronews reports that bidders including KKR, Blackstone, CVC and Singaporean wealth fund Temasek holdings are competing for a stake in the […]
August 22, 2019

NMC Health shares soar as investors bid for stake: but is it a serious offer?

Unnamed groups, one linked to Chinese conglomerate Fosun, have reportedly bid nearly $2bn for a 40% stake in London-listed global healthcare group NMC Health, according to a Reuters story, sending the share price soaring on the same day as its H1 2019 results. But the offer looks like it is still far below NMC Health's peak share price of August 2018, so why on earth would they sell now? We give the reaction of analysts, advisers and investors. 
August 22, 2019

Regina Maria buys in Northern Romania

Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria, the second-largest for-profit health care group in the country by revenue, has acquired a clinic in the North as part of an active growth strategy before a likely sale next month, September 2019, by Mid Europa. We speak to a local consultant about the move.
August 22, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: GesundHeits sale falls through

HBI exclusively hears that German medicalised homecare specialist GesundHeits GmbH (GHD) has pulled the plug on its sales process, despite entering a second round of talks and claiming it received interest from over 25 prospective buyers. We speak to a market expert about what happened.
August 22, 2019

UK NHS Trust pulling out of Abu Dhabi

We hear that a UK NHS Trust, one of several to have set up healthcare facilities in the GCC in the past decade, is close to offloading its Abu Dhabi clinic to a local private operator. We discuss the success of NHS Trusts in the GCC generally.
August 22, 2019

Ambea’s Norwegian turnaround requires “a lot more work”

Pan-Nordic care provider Ambea has released Q2 2019 results showing its Norwegian business requires "a lot more work" before achieving a successful turnaround and margin improvement. Group-wide sales nearly doubled thanks to its recent large acquisition although grow only 1% organically. The results were well-received by the market. Its share price rose 8% to a high of SEK 74 (€6.80) over the morning of the results day, Tuesday August 20th.
August 21, 2019
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