The Bulgarian government is considering splitting up its single payor into multiple, competing funds creating a similar landscape to that in Germany, a local investor tells us.
Grupo Notre Dame Intermedica (GNDI), one of Brazil's largest hospital groups, is hoping to raise around R$3bn ($775m) from the sale of new shares this month. We speak to a Brazilian healthcare expert to find out what this means for the company and investors.
A public consultation on competition in South Africa could lead to a relaxation on external investment in the laboratory market, Healthcare Nova hears.
Brazil's fate has been sealed for the next four years, though president-elect Bolsonaro has yet to appoint a health minister. In anticipation of who might fill the role, we ask Wilson Olivieri, former CFO of Brazilian insurer Qualicorp, what the government could do for private healthcare.
A member of the senior management team at an international health insurance provider tells Healthcare Nova that an experiment with premiums has tripled the take-up of telehealth in one of their markets.
PharmAccess Foundation, the pioneering Dutch NGO which has lent money to 1,000 for-profit clinics across Africa and launched an innovative mobile health payment scheme in Kenya is now working closely with governments.
Here we look at what strategies private medical insurers plan to follow over the next few years based on our attendance at UniGlobal’s 10th conference in Berlin. This complements our other article – International Healthcare Insurers – It’s a Hard Life – which gives a picture of where insurers really are today.
A fairly bleak picture of the future of healthcare in emerging markets was painted by Laurent Pochat-Cottilloux, Global Head of Healthcare Reinsurance at Axa Reinsurance, speaking at the UniGlobal Annual Health Insurance Conference.
PharmAccess Foundation, the pioneering Dutch NGO which has lent money to 1,000 for-profit clinics across Africa and launched an innovative mobile health payment scheme in Kenya is now working closely with governments.
Here we look at what strategies private medical insurers plan to follow over the next few years based on our attendance at UniGlobal's 10th conference in Berlin. This complements our other article - International Healthcare Insurers - It's a Hard Life - which gives a picture of where insurers really are today.
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