Brazilian listed HMOs (health management organisations) Hapvida Saude and Grupo Notre Dame Intermedica have resumed their M&A binge since July after a quiet second quarter, despite the pandemic continuing to rage throughout the country.
August activity levels for France's second-largest hospital group Elsan were ahead of 2019, while Italy's largest player San Donato is still 30% down due to a more gradual restart of electives and stricter contagion control in Lombardy, HBI can reveal. The cautiousness reflects just how hard-hit the region was.
UK hospital group Spire Healthcare became a majority NHS-funded provider for the first time ever during the first half of 2020 as it became an extension of the public health system, its H1 2020 results reveal. What are the implications and how do you value a company in such unprecedented circumstances? We talk to an analyst.
The Spanish private healthcare market has been one of Europe's most attractive for institutional investors of late with strong organic and inorganic growth opportunities. PWC Spain's deals leader for Healthcare & Pharma Jose Zarzalejos talks us through the drivers, movers and shakers in the six main sub-sectors: hospitals, imaging, oncology, care homes, IVF and dentistry.
The effect of the COVID crisis was evident in Indian hospital chain Apollo's Q1 results, announced on Monday. It reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 226 crore ($31m) for the quarter ending June 30, but there was a silver lining in the growth of it's pharmacy business.
Traditional hospital business models stand to be massively disrupted as payors adopt front-end telehealth. Early adopters insurers Cigna and Aetna are seeing high patient satisfaction and huge cost savings from the deployment of telehealth in EMEA and emerging markets. Cigna is starting to grade quality at operators outside of the USA, according to the latest HBI-365 panel discussion. Go to HBI-365.com to find out more.
NMC Health's H1 2019 healthcare revenue and EBITDA were overstated by 24% and 178%, respectively, according to a recent presentation by company management. It comes as some local banks turn up the heat on the in-administration group, HBI is told.
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