CRC collapses

Catalan imaging services provider CRC Corporacio Sanitaria has gone into bankruptcy under a debt burden of €44m, according to Spanish newspaper Expansion. This follows the collapse of Balague, the big spanish reference lab group, earlier in September.

Spanish administrative concessions face big problems

The future of the Alzira model, where a private operator is given control of all primary and secondary healthcare needs for hundreds of thousands of people, is in question.  The cash-strapped autonomous region of Valencia is seeking to renegotiating contracts and is delaying payments to the concessions which are partly run by insurers such as DKV, BUPA, Asisa and Adeslas. ...