03.17.2015

Adrian Purcarea, 41, the executive who has run private healthcare operator Medicover in the past almost two years, is set to leave this position in May. He will move to America together with his more

03.12.2015

Wargha Enayati, founder of private healthcare provider Regina Maria, a major player on this market, estimates the Romanian healthcare subscription market reached 600,000 units, but its potential is more

03.11.2015

Amethyst, a cancer treatment center network started in Bucharest and then expanded in other states, plans to reach a 20-center European network by 2020 from six at present. The centers are owned by more

03.02.2015

The most powerful entrepreneurial businesses in the medical service industry in Romania, MedLife and Sanador, were established by female physicians. The two currently generate EUR120 million revenue more

02.20.2015

Regina Maria, a major player on Romania’s private healthcare market, is likely to change its owner this year in a deal likely to head toward nine figures in euros. more

02.13.2015

Medsana, the first foreign investment on Romania’s healthcare market, reduced the weight of subscriptions in revenue to 33% in 2014 from 40% in the previous year as it deliberately renounced five more

02.04.2015

Nearly 93% of the Romanians have public healthcare insurance, 2% of the Romanians have private medical subscriptions fully or partially paid by the employer, while another 2% have a private healthcare more

01.13.2015

Medicover, the largest foreign investor in Romania’s healthcare sector, is mulling acquisitions this year and targets strong expansion, as it will also invest in new clinics. more

12.19.2014

Romanian private healthcare company Sanador will open a large clinic next year, the first major expansion step it takes after the opening, in 2011, of the Bucharest hospital, while its revenue is more

12.18.2014

Euromedic Romania, the company that manages ten medical imaging centers countrywide, expects revenue to rise by 3.5% this year, from 49.5 million lei (EUR11 million) in 2013. more

12.17.2014

Polisano group, the only integrated entrepreneurial business in the Romanian healthcare industry, is likely to generate healthcare revenue worth RON100 million in 2015, up 54% from 2014, when it more

12.12.2014

Ponderas Hospital, specialized in weight loss surgery, expects revenue worth around 40 million lei (EUR9 million) this year, up 25% on the year. more

12.10.2014

The healthcare sector, which gets 27 billion lei (EUR6 billion) from the government and generates more than RON4.5 billion revenue per year for private companies, saw the Europharm plant in Brasov, more

12.05.2014

Anima, a company that entered the private healthcare market in 2010, envisages “solid” investments to develop its network of family medicine clinics, both through acquisitions and greenfield more

11.24.2014

Romania’s private healthcare operator MedLife gave up Vital retail insurance developed jointly with Generali insurer, but announced it planned to launch two new products by yearend. more

11.11.2014

Romanian drug group Polisano plans to start a rebranding campaign next week, which will involve all the companies part of it and be the first project of this type of the Sibiu-based business developed more

11.05.2014

Private equity fund Advent international, whose only remaining Romanian business is medical service provider Regina Maria, is getting ready for an exit, industry sources say. more

11.04.2014

International Healthcare Systems (IHS), the fifth largest player on the Romanian private healthcare market, will continue adding one center per annum, at the pace it’s maintained so far, but also more

10.17.2014

The Socea family, a stakeholder in EnergoBit, a major supplier of equipment and services for the energy sector, is making its first major investment after ceding control of the company in 2012. more

10.08.2014

Iasi-based private healthcare group Arcadia, controlled by Romanian entrepreneurs, generated revenue worth EUR5.4 million in the first half of this year, up 23% from the year-earlier period. more

10.07.2014

Spitalul European Polisano (Polisano European Hospital), part of Romanian group Polisano, is set to invest almost EUR20 million in the coming months to open four new radiotherapy centers. more

09.30.2014

Hospitals have not been a winning bet for many private healthcare operators in Romania and the market will be hit by significant insolvencies next year, said Mihai Marcu, managing board president at more

09.29.2014

Shortages in Romania’s public healthcare sector are triggered by the lack of financing and the reckless use of existing funds, Calin Galaseanu, president of the Romanian Association of International more

09.19.2014

Health insurance, which has lagged behind on the private healthcare market, had a strong start to the year in 2014, as companies with over 54,000 employees signed contracts with insurance companies. more

08.06.2014

Another two surgery rooms could be added in 2015 in hospital OncoFort opened last year in the wake of investments worth EUR7 million, says Robert Serban, who, together with his wife Georgeta, controls more