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Detailed research report on health care services in Germany with marketshare and growth rates for 21 sectors (HBI Intelligence)
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News stories and interviews with operators and investors in Germany (HBI Deals and Insights)
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Updated: May 2023
Executive Summary
Background
Germany has a large and generally well-protected for-profit sector. Under the constitution, for-profit hospitals have to receive the same tariffs as the public sector, nursing home prices are guaranteed far in advance. Germany's complex federal structure makes change very difficult leading to many odd anomalies and often high tariffs, particularly in inpatient care. Much of the outpatient sector is now opening up in areas such as imaging and dentistry.
But it is not all roses. Hospital privatisation has all but stopped and may no longer be politically acceptable, tariffs are favouring lower-margin outpatient treatment and onerous regulations on minimum nurses has forced operators to go on mass recruitment drives abroad.
The strong outpatient doctors lobby obstructs reforms that might produce effective chronic disease management programmes. The lab sector has seen the imposition of substantial budget ceilings.
The gradual outlawing of double bedrooms in nursing homes have placed a huge capex burden on operators who need to refurbish old buildings, while rehab hospitals face a huge staff shortage as regulatory changes to labour in hospitals and nursing homes attract more labour.
See the report for details on healthcare spending and trends, including data figures.
Below are two example extracts from the sector breakdowns. See the report for full details on each sector. See the table of contents for information on which sectors are represented in the report. Domiciliary Care Market size, growth & composition
According to mid-market player SunaCare, 300,000 people use domiciliary care in Germany and most of this is on the unofficial market where carers cost around €1,000 a month. We estimate this unofficial market could be worth between €2-4bn. The for-profit market charges up to €2,500 a month and we estimate it to be worth around €3bn. We are told it is growing extremely rapidly at around 20% - though we would estimate a more conservative growth rate around 10% due to difficulties in sourcing and retaining staff. On top of this would be large public and not-for-profit sectors where we do not have any reliable numbers at this time. Prices & margins
Jörg Veil, managing director of Home Instead Germany, tells us most for-profits are very small with average revenues around €800,000 to €1m. They are operated by their owners, Veil estimates they make 10% EBITDA margins, a figure out of which they take their salary.
Though the for-profit sector charges around €2,500 a month, we are told this is a co-payment with clients paying €1,500 a month and the rest covered by insurers. Occupational Healthcare
Germany’s occupational activity market is awaiting legal reform as the current laws garner little respect. It’s big based on sheer scale at around €2bn - and growing quite slowly at around 2% - but there is a wider payor market worth a huge €15bn, according to official statistics. Background
The regulations around occupational healthcare in Germany are governed by one law introduced in 2008 and updated in 2013 - ArbMedVV. It lays out that employers must provide occupational care under three categories of: Pflichtvorsage, Angebotsvorsorge and Wunschvorsorge. Or in English: compulsory, recommended and elective. The law determines the requirement depending on the activity involved. For example, occupational care is compulsory for employees working with methanol, but is recommended for employees working with exposure to cereal and feed dusts. All specified areas of activity are listed in an annex to the law.
The big players working in the activity market are B.A.D Gruppe, which has about €260m sales in Germany. But most players come in far below that: the IAS Gruppe’s (Institute for Occupational and Social Hygiene Foundation) business arm is worth €7m. The market remains very fragmented.
The total payor market in Germany is a huge €15bn, national statistics show. The majority of this is cash in pharmacies (13%), dentistry (11%) and rehab (8%). Please note that we expect other European markets like France and the UK to have similarly large employer-paid cash markets but Germany’s official data captures this and other national data banks don’t. If somebody can create a one-stop-shop for all employers needs, then there is the potential to transform this cash market into a B2B contract one. See the report for full details on each sector, including further details on the two above. See the table of contents for information on which sectors are represented in the report.
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Instant overview of the German market This report gives you visibility of this fast-growing market detailed profiles of the Top 280 players.
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Insights on business models The report looks at the main models – private hospitals and lab and dialysis outsourcing.
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Table of Contents
Germany – National overview
Background
Spending
Regulatory framework
Trends in 2018
Dentistry
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Dialysis
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Domiciliary Care
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Fertility
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Hospital
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Imaging Services
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Laboratory Services
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Medicalised Homecare
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Nursing Homes
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Occupational Healthcare
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Oncology
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Ophthalmology
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Post-acute Rehabilitation
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Telehealth primary
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
Teleradiology
Data sets For-profit /private market size and growth rates 2016-2020 Marketshare of major players 2018
Market description and trends.
HBI has built a unique database of the Top 3,700 operators globally in health care services. As part of this we have identified the top 315 operators in Germany.
Profiles include revenue/sales data as well as EBITDA and other profit margins where known. They also cover private equity ownership with dates and mergers and acquisitions.
Germany News & Interviews
Our indepth stories dig deep and cover profit multiples, revenue, EBITDA and CEO thinking.
Private equity firm Apollo has spent €3 billion buying an undisclosed but likely substantial minority stake in German multinational pharma company Bayer’s contraceptives business, which sells intrauterine devices (IUDs). This part of the business, which ac...
France’s national financial prosecutor, Parquet National Financier (PNF), has seized bank accounts held by French home care operator Santé Cie, as part of an ongoing preliminary investigation into the group....
Bergman Clinics is a multinational European clinic chain that focuses on elective medical specialist (secondary) care done in an outpatient setting. In a conversation with HBI Jeroen Cammeraat, CEO, explained how being focused on high volume elective procedure...
Private equity investor TPG has launched a specialist outpatient real estate investment platform to hold the €400 million worth of German and Dutch medical outpatient buildings (MOBs) it bought from Canada-based healthcare REIT Northwest in January, and acqu...
Germany’s outpatient intensive care market is entering a period of structural change, creating significant opportunities for providers with scale, according to Dr Erik Hamann, CEO of Opseo, a German provider of intensive care services.
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Germany’s medical cannabis market has been booming since it was removed from the list of controlled narcotic substances in 2024, which made prescribing it much easier. Now as many as one million Germans are being prescribed cannabis, according to the most of...
Oslo-based private equity firm Verdane has invested in Berlin-based healthcare technology company ETERNO to support its expansion in Germany as it scales its AI-native operating system for outpatient care....
Database of 520 Germany service providers
HBI has built a unique database of the Top 4,000 operators globally in health care services. As part of this we have identified the top 520 operators in Germany.
Profiles include revenue/sales data as well as EBITDA and other profit margins where known. They also cover private equity ownership with dates and mergers and acquisitions.
Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) Intelligence
Our deal pipeline shows how likely all private equity and some privately companies are to sell based on algorithms and journalistic know-how.
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