{"id":306809,"date":"2010-02-11T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/02\/11\/report-greek-hospitals-owe-billions-to-drug-device-makers\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:11:55","slug":"report-greek-hospitals-owe-billions-to-drug-device-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306809","title":{"rendered":"Report: Greek Hospitals Owe Billions to Drug, Device Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Greece\"Here’s the Health Blog’s little corner of the Greek debt saga<\/a>: The nation’s government-run hospitals owe about $9.5 billion to drug and device manufacturers, the Financial Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Senior European pharma execs are flying to Athens for talks, and the industry wants the European Commission to find that Greece has broken EU late-payment rules. A deal may be worked out to restructure the debt; a similar deal in 2004 included a significant discount, the FT says.<\/p>\n

The government last year set aside 1.1 billion euros to pay hospital debts; Goldman Sachs cited that move in a note it sent out Wednesday, arguing that Greece may need to revise up figures for its 2009 estimate. The government refuted that allegation. (For details, see the WSJ’s Real Time Economics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, hospital docs were among those who participated in a strike yesterday<\/a> to protest austerity measures the Greek government wants to put in place as part of the effort to control the deficit.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Health Blog’s little corner of the Greek debt saga: The nation’s government-run hospitals owe about $9.5 billion to drug and device manufacturers, the Financial Times reports. Senior European pharma execs are flying to Athens for talks, and the industry wants the European Commission to find that Greece has broken EU late-payment rules. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}