Haws brings 30 years of financial leadership experience in health care to the position. He joins Emory Healthcare from University of Iowa Health Care where he was associate vice president and CFO. In this role, he had oversight for all financial operations, including revenue cycle finance, accounting, debt structure management, investment strategy, third-party contracting, risk management and strategy development. Prior to that, Haws spent 13 years in the University of Virginia (UVA) health system, including leadership stints in its health care group and its school of medicine. Haws moved to UVA after a long career as CFO of Intermountain Health Care, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The latest “meme stock” doesn’t sell video games or own a movie-theater chain — it’s a health insurance company whose founders have been accused of slapping hospital patients with exorbitant bills.
University of Chicago Chief Financial Officer Ivan Samstein is moving over to the hospital system to take the top fiscal post there at the end of the month. The appointment of Samstein, who left his position as Cook County’s CFO to take the top fiscal role at the university in 2017, will carry the title of executive vice president and CFO of the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Shares of Clover Health surged at the open on Wednesday before reversing those early gains, continuing a volatile period for the Medicare insurance stock that has become a favorite of traders on Reddit. Clover was trading at $20.39 per share shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET, down about 8% from its previous close. The stock rose as high as $28.85 per share earlier in the session.
“As of the date of this letter,” which was addressed to Stein on April 14, “Cone Health has neither sought nor obtained such written approval from Randolph,” Wilson wrote.
Meme stocks, like cicadas and Michael Myers, appear impervious to death. Take Clover Health. The Franklin, Tennessee-based healthcare tech company came into existence in the middle of last year’s SPAC (special purchase acquisition company) boom, propelled by famous venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya and spurred on by eager individual investors on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets chat group.