Pan-Nordic healthcare group Aleris has acquired the specialised hospital and acute care arm of competitor Praktikertjänst, doubling its Swedish footprint in a move that acting CEO Thomas Berglund says could drive more public sector outsourcing.
London-listed EMEA healthcare group NMC Health saw a 25% fall in its share price on Tuesday, December 17, as research firm Muddy Waters, founded by renowned short seller Carson Block, published a negative report on the company. NMC Health says the assertions appear "principally unfounded, baseless and misleading, containing many errors of fact."
Long leases and attractive yields are the cornerstones of healthcare real-estate which have greased the wheels of investments over the last 10-15 years. More healthcare-specialised funds are emerging now as laws open markets up to foreign capital and fund managers look to decrease investor risk.
Brazilian hospital operator and holding company Evipar (Eustácio Vieira Participações) is investing R $400m (US $96m) into the construction of two new hospitals to be rented out to the country's largest healthcare providers.
TPG-backed Indian hospital group Manipal and BRS Ventures, the investment firm of NMC Health's founder B.R. Shetty, are reportedly leading the pack to acquire the Indian portion of Columbia Asia from its American owners.
This year, Brazilian healthcare has been characterised by a flurry of activity from two vertically integrated insurers in particular. The most intense competition has occurred in the affluent South, where providers are battling it out for market share.
How would you describe a for-profit healthcare group which basically takes people away from jobs in the public sector and then hires them back to the same employers in exchange for a fat fee? How about parasitic?
The failure of Slovakian opposition parties to build a coalition or push through a bill banning verticalisation in healthcare could make a minority sale of Penta Investments's CEE hospital business PHI less likely.
Brazilian HMO Hapvida has acquired cooperative insurer-provider Medical Medicina Cooperativa Assistencial de Limeira (Medical) for R $294m ($ 70m) in the state of São Paulo.
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