Local operators say they are impressed by plans from Dubai Health Authority to extend mandatory insurance cover to include the three most common forms of cancer. But they would like to see it crack down on massive medical wastage and fraud.
The Polish lab market has significant room to grow but the under-testing which is rife in the country must be stamped out, the chairman of the biggest lab group in the country, Diagnostyka, tells Healthcare Europa.
Shares in Max India, the holding company for Max Healthcare, Max Bupa Health and Antara Senior Living, have fallen by over four per cent since Monday, after the Delhi Government cancelled the licence of its Max Healthcare Shalimar Bagh hospital following the death of a premature baby last week.
Georgia has privatised many of its hospitals since 2008, but we hear that reforms, plus much later payments, are creating big problems for private hospitals, which are 80% dependent on the state. We also talk to a source close to one of the country’s largest healthcare operators.
Georgia has privatised many of its hospitals since 2008, but we hear that reforms, plus much later payments, are creating big problems for private hospitals, which are 80% dependent on the state. We also talk to a source close to one of the country's largest healthcare operators.
Radical changes to the way operators are paid in Albania will allow private hospital providers to be paid from public funds for a wide variety of procedures for the first time, opening up the market.
This summer, Mediclinic, the listed South African, Europe and Mid-East hospital giant, quietly bought into Intercare, a South African outpatient, day hospital and sub-acute and rehabilitation hospital network which specialises in value-based healthcare, providing the best outcomes at the lowest costs. Here is why we think the acquisition is a game changer and why this is a business model that could be exported internationally.
Rumour has it that German ophthalmology chain Ober Scharrer will be sold in the winter. Of course, its CEO Sibylle Stauch-Eckmann couldn’t possibly comment. Nonetheless, she tells us the group now has 5% of the country’s rapidly consolidating eye-care market and a strong pipeline offering further growth.
Imaging and lab group Alliar has its eyes on another giant Private Public partnership (PPP) contract in Brazil which would be twice as big as its US$60m a year, 11.5 year contract with Bahia state, says CEO Fernando Termi, speaking at the inaugural Healthcare Latam conference.
Capitation models have become the byword for efficiency in healthcare. Nuria Martin discusses the merits and drawbacks of private health insurance companies implementing this approach in Spain. Plus, she considers the future of this model in Brazil and how it would affect the Brazilian laboratory sector.
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