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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

Advent buys American Heart of Poland

Private equity group Advent International has moved into Polish healthcare services, buying the American Heart of Poland chain....
September 15, 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

Romanian market gets tougher

Advent International-owned Romanian polyclinic and hospital chain Regina Maria expects the Romanian private healthcare sector to grow just 15% this year to around €400m. The black market and market of people leaving Romanian for operations remain larger. Meanwhile, expect consolidation as the National Health Insurance Funds cuts tariffs and more hospitals are launched....
June 24, 2011

Romania’s private hospitals get marked down

Romania’s 66 private hospitals have been left out in the cold by a government rating which defined most of them as poor. This means their price per DRG for public sector work with the payor CASA will plummet over 50%. The CASA has also not come up with a new contract for 2011....
May 27, 2011

Interview: Fady Chreih, executive director, Regina Maria

We talk to Fady Chreih, executive director at Regina Maria, the Romanian healthcare provider owned by Advent International, formerly known as CMU Unirea, which took over the Euroclinic hospital, at the end of 2010. Together with Medlife and Medicover, it is one of the three largest operators in the country. Sales came to €30m in 2010, which should double in the next 2-3 years. The company has a network of 16 polyclinics and six small hospitals - four in Bucharest, one in Brasov and one in Bacau - with a total of 220 beds.  ...
March 27, 2011

Breakneck change in Romania as CMU rebrands

The privatisation of Romanian healthcare continues at a breakneck speed as the public sector melt down continues. In Bucharest all eyes are on the new Sanador hospital, a converted block of flats, which will open shortly. That should about double beds in the city. And, in a move of marketing genius, CMU Unirea has re-branded as Regina Maria....
March 16, 2011

Indemnity products find favour in Romania

Eureko has launched an indemnity policy which will pay Romanians who go abroad for treatment a fixed amount per day and per procedure. The product should eventually help hopefuls who leave Romania looking for treatment under the cross border patient directive....
February 3, 2011

Romania makes citizens pay first EUR150 of healthcare

Dr Parmena Radut, chief medical officer at Eureko Romania, the Dutch owned healthcare insurer, which has a 48% share of the Romanian private medical insurance market, says that Romania will implement a new system in July under which citizens will have to meet all the first 600 lei (€150) of their annual healthcare charges out of their own pockets. The state will then take over all further payments. Meanwhile, the mayor of Bucharest has announced that 3-4 of the 18 large public hospitals which cover Bucharest will be closed....
February 3, 2011
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