More private equity groups have been buying acute hospitals in Germany to enter the wider outpatient sector, now their only option since a new law was passed on May 1. It has made it easier to track who is entering the outpatient market.
In March, a small French medtech supplier revealed it was to acquire an unnamed group with hospital assets in Colombia and Africa with over €70m in revenue. HBI can exclusively reveal the name of that group.
We examine a feast of data, the 2018 results, from Cerba, Synlab and Unilabs and contrast them with Sonic and Eurofins. What do they tell us about their performance across routine lab testing, acquisitions and diversification?
Europe's largest nursing home group by revenue has expanded into the Netherlands with the acquisition of a small, high-end Alzheimer's specialist. We speak to a Dutch adviser about the move.
The health insurer for Portugal's 1.2 million civil servants says it will soon announce its new price list for services rendered by the country's private hospitals, the biggest of which briefly cut ties with the body at the start of 2019. We talk to one of their executives.
Germany's largest medicalised homecare company by revenue, GesundHeits (GHD), tells HBI it has already met with over 25 different prospective buyers and has entered a second round of talks. We speak to the company's CEO and discuss price and potential buyers with a market expert.
Radiotherapy group MedEuropa has acquired the largest radiosurgery player in the German market, a year after telling HBI it wanted to create a pan-European network.
Private Healthcare Information Network (Phin) has published data on consultant physician fees in the private sector in the UK for the first time. So how close are we to really clear comparisons on price and quality between for-profit operators and on quality between the for-profit and NHS?
Political risk in the Middle East and Africa is high, and at times unavoidable. But at HBI 2019, consultancy firm McDermott, Will & Emery (MWE) offered its advice on how to safely do business in the region.
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