Occupational Healthcare

 

Life’s Polish pullout points to wider woes in market

Life Healthcare confirmed last week that it was looking to exit its Polish hospital business, Scanmed, citing further regulatory changes. Other investors are also looking to leave the country and assets that were expected to sell remain unsold. What went wrong in a market we once described as "stuff as dreams are made of"?
November 28, 2019

Funding occupational healthcare in Germany

HBI hears the market for manager-level medical checkups is worth around €1.5bn each year in Germany but this is predominately private pay. The occupational healthcare market feels like it's being held back by reimbursement models that don't support wider preventive care.
November 21, 2019

Five things we learnt at the Budapest Private Health Forum

This week HBI attended Portfolio's private healthcare forum in Budapest. We got an update on the country's ongoing insurance reform, the latest consolidation efforts and limp towards digitalisation. Here are our key takeaways: 
November 7, 2019

Mehiläinen makes offer for Pihlajalinna and reveals international expansion

As first speculated by HBI last year, Finnish health and social care provider Mehiläinen has offered to buy competitor Pihlajalinna. We talk to Mehiläinen CEO Janne-Olli Järvenpää and local sources about integrating the two companies, competition concerns, the possibility of a bidding war and international expansion, which Järvenpää gives HBI exclusive details on.
November 7, 2019

Funding change to force Finnish groups back into preventive care

From next year Finland, one of Europe's largest occupational healthcare markets, will change funding structures to incentivise employers to spend more on preventive care and less on medical care. HBI explains the law and looks at how it will affect the market.
November 6, 2019

FREE BLOG New HBI pipeline tool reveals long-held investments 

Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
October 31, 2019

Terveystalo buys health survey company (and its data?)

Terveystalo has bought a health survey company and its IP. Simo Taimela, the CEO of its new purchase, Evalua, tells HBI that its product will help the Finnish occupational healthcare provider to create better health interventions. Is there more to the deal?
October 24, 2019

A poacher turns gamekeeper: Austrian health care reform     

After 19 years as a health care services expert working as an investment banker, analyst and consultant, Martin Brunninger has returned to his native Austria to become director-general for healthcare and social care. In this role, he is responsible for reforming the entire health and social care system under the new reformist conservative coalition government which came to power in December 2017 and is likely to hold power for a few years. We talk to Brunninger about the likely changes and his change in role.
October 18, 2019
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