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Ramsay Australia suggests Bupa-insured switch insurer after tariff negotiations fail

Ramsay Australia, the Australian branch of multinational hospital group Ramsay Health Care, is no longer contracted with insurer Bupa after the two companies failed to come to an agreement in negotiations over tariff increases. Ramsay has advised the four million Australians insured by Bupa to switch to another insurer rather than pay out-of-pocket to receive care from Ramsay hospitals and clinics from October 2.
August 4, 2022

VPS IPO stalls

Abu Dhabi-based multinational healthcare group VPS seems to have quietly canned its planned IPO.
July 29, 2022

Centene sells Ribera

US healthcare giant Centene confirmed it has sold its Spanish and Central European subsidiaries to French private hospital group Vivalto Santé, but has yet to find a buyer for Circle Health, the second largest UK hospital chain.
July 29, 2022

Ramsay deal may unblock

Media reports suggest that Ramsay Santé, the 53%-owned continental European arm of Ramsay Health Care, may relent and allow KKR to carry out due diligence which would enable it to complete on its AU$88 a share bid. But investors were not convinced with the shares languishing at AU$69.84 at close of play.
July 29, 2022

German hospital sector faces cliff

The number of hospitals losing money will more than double to 59% in 2022 and the situation is likely to get far worse as the Covid block payment comfort cushion has been removed. Meanwhile, statutory insurers face huge deficits, hospital productivity is falling and vacancies increasing. The annual 2022 hospital rating report from the Leibniz Institute of Economic Research and the Institute for Healthcare Business paints a truly dire picture.
July 22, 2022

Bid may undervalue Mediclinic

South African analysts say the 504p per share, £3.7bn proposed cash offer for Mediclinic International's equity, the South African, Swiss and Middle East hospital group may somewhat undervalue the business. The current offer equates to an enterprise value of £5.88bn. Analysts put the break up value on an enterprise value at between £5.5bn and £6.2bn. HBI reckons the equity alone could be worth £5.2bn.
July 20, 2022

Portuguese hospital groups face €191 million fine

The Autorldade da Concorrencia (AdC), the Portuguese Competition Authority, has sanctioned and imposed fines of €191 million on several private hospital groups and the Portuguese Private Hospitals Association (APHP).
July 18, 2022

Vivalto Sante goes international with expansion into Portugal and Switzerland

Vivalto Sante, the third largest for-profit hospital group in France, is joining the likes of Fresenius, Ramsay and Mediclinic as it becomes the latest member of the highly select club of multinational hospital groups. As well as having bought a chain of three clinics in Switzerland, it is buying Lusiadas Saude, the third largest hospital group in Portugal. CEO Daniel Caille tells HBI that the decision to go international has nothing to do with opportunities for consolidation within the French market drying up.
July 8, 2022
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