The possibility that Summa Health’s sale to a firm backed by venture capital would harm doctors’ ability to have their student loans forgiven is the subject of a lawsuit filed last week by a doctor who said she was “compelled” to seek new employment to safeguard her eligibility for a federal loan forgiveness program that clears some student debts after a decade of payments.
Oscar Health (OSCR) CEO Mark Bertolini sits down with Seana Smith, Madison Mills, and Anjalee Khemlani on Yahoo Finance's Catalysts, addressing some of the various frustrations Americans have with the state of the US healthcare system.
New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with murder in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, hours after he was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
A Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company raised its drug prices, and then board members and executives received phone calls threatening violence. A health care company's board meeting was disrupted after board members were targeted in "swatting" attacks that wrongly sent law enforcement officers to their homes. These incidents happened before the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare's chief executive, in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. The police had not offered a motive for the shooting as of Thursday night, or said it was related to Mr. Thompson's work in the insurance industry. The killing, however, stunned business leaders, some of whom were already concerned about safety. Over the last five years, there has been a sharp rise in targeted attacks, digital and offline, of executives and their families.
Over 500 hospitals have closed their labor and delivery departments since 2010, according to a large new study, leaving most rural hospitals and more than a third of urban hospitals without obstetric care.
The killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the insurance division of UnitedHealth Group, provided a window into the vitriol that prominent healthcare leaders have been facing. Workers across healthcare face safety risks. People employed in the industry are about five times more likely than people in other private industries to experience workplace violence.