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Fresenius clears way for Rhoen deal and targets big business

Helios - soon to become by far Europe’s largest private hospital chain, with sales of €5.5bn - has made peace with rival Asklepios and supplier B Braun. We look at its ambitious plans to capture tens of thousands of new patients with a drive to sell supplementary insurance to Germany’s largest employers.
January 6, 2014

FREE BLOG After Big Pharma and Big Medtech, welcome to Big Healthcare

Not so long ago, the healthcare services sector was full of almost Mom ’n’ Pop business. Hospitals were passive hoteliers for local doctors. Diagnostics was the preserve of a privileged branch of the medical profession. Insurers just paid the bills. Often, it is still like that. Recently, though, things have changed: and we can see clearly where the industry is heading.
December 17, 2013

Competition Commission report is a paper tiger

UK private hospital operators are quietly confident that they can successfully challenge the Competition Commission's findings against the sector, which they claim are full of elementary errors. As one source says: “Some of the numbers in the report are just plain wrong. The Commission’s definition of 'profit' is, itself, highly controversial.”
November 8, 2013

Greek government promises payment after five-day strike by private providers

From October 29 to November 3, Greece's private hospitals have refused to treat patients insured by the country’s statutory payor, the National Organisation for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY). The insurer owes €800m in arrears to private healthcare facilities. We talk to Velis Pappas, Commercial Director at Athens-based Euroclinic, to find out more.
November 6, 2013

FREE BLOG Has burgerversicherung died?

German private insurers, and the private healthcare services sector as a whole, are breathing a collective sigh of relief after Burgerversicherung, a unified statutory insurance policy, failed to make it to the Social Democrats' list of top ten negotiating points for the coalition. The policy would have meant the effective phasing out of private insurance. Still, the Social Democrats' number one demand, the introduction of a minimum wage of €8.50 per hour, could hurt.
October 29, 2013

Penta to sell MediClinic

Penta Investments is looking to sell Czech primary care chain MediClinic this year. We speak to Investment Director Vaclav Jirku about the Czech healthcare market, the sale of insurer-owned Melnik hospital, challenges in the primary care sector and where Penta hopes to go from here.
September 20, 2013

Insurer PZU bargains over EMC

Big Polish insurer PZU has used its minority stake in top Polish hospital privatisation chain EMC to prevent majority owner Penta from de-listing the company. Time may be running out for EMC, too. Upcoming local and general elections are likely to return a government dominated by the Law and Justice party, which is hostile to private sector involvement in healthcare delivery.
September 20, 2013

Polish shortfall to hurt newcomers

The Polish National Health Fund has dropped the shutters on newcomers looking for contracts in 2013, thanks to a projected PLN 1bn (€240m) shortfall. Meanwhile, a domestic insurance giant has built a stake in a leading hospital privatisation group.
July 18, 2013

PMI won’t escape Competition Commission

The Competition Commission looks set to weaken the UK insurance networks by allowing individuals with private medical insurance (PMI) to use any willing private provider. Patients wanting total choice would be able to a pay a small top-up fee if their preferred provider is not part of their insurer’s existing network. Meanwhile, earlier in June, the top five private hospital groups - BMI, Spire, Nuffield, Ramsay and HCA - bowed to pressure and published prices for self-pay patients.The UK private healthcare market is being liberalised.
June 21, 2013
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