Occupational Healthcare

 

COVID widens fault line between outsourcing and private pay in Hungary

Hungary's private pay-focused operators should maintain double-digit growth in 2020 despite COVID-19 while those reliant on public outsourcing face an uncertain future, the chairman of the fourth-largest private acute care provider tells HBI. Affidea just lost a large outsourcing contract while a billionaire and venture capital funds have recently entered the market.
August 6, 2020

Interview: Daniel Soukup, head of EUC Virtual Clinic

The Czech Republic's largest primary care and occupational healthcare provider by revenue, EUC, has been leading the charge in bringing digital health care to the country. Daniel Soukup, head of its Virtual Clinic, tells HBI that while the service has before been only for its private-pay patients, it is starting to work much closer with public insurers to bring telemedicine to more people.
June 23, 2020

Covid: The double whammy – who will be left standing?

In a recent paper on the medtech outlook for Europe, UBS, looked at how Singapore and Toronto bounced back from pandemics. Pent up demand simply led to double growth rates the year after. But Covid is two things: a pandemic coupled to a steep recession, almost certainly worse than 2008. We look at what this means for a sector where private equity has often geared up to the hilt.
April 16, 2020

Exclusive prediction: Pandemic reaching turning point in Europe?

An exclusive analysis by Chinese insurance giant Ping An suggests COVID-19 cases could reach a turning point in the next few days, hitting the peak of new confirmed cases by later this week / early April,  with that figure set to fall thereafter.
March 30, 2020

Employer-pay growth loses to individual at big occupational healthcare groups

Occupational healthcare groups Medicover and Terveystalo are growing revenue at upwards of 25%, much faster than the 6-9% seen in other publicly listed groups so far this year. Historically employer-funded, individual pay is now growing three times faster than corporate. With Fresenius Helios setting out occupational healthcare expansion plans, what is the future of corporate pay?
February 26, 2020

Mid Europa pulls Regina Maria sale

PE firm Mid Europa has pulled the sale of its Romanian healthcare provider Regina Maria, but may re-launch it in the second half of 2021.
January 15, 2020
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