You can count on companies to make major announcements when the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the biggest event in the healthcare sector each year, is underway. That's exactly what happened over the last week. But three healthcare stocks soared over 30% last week as a result of their presentations at the major healthcare conference and announcements in connection with those presentations.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s largest health care provider is laying off 327 employees. Prisma Health said the eliminated positions affect all departments — both administrative and medical — and all locations, both in the Midlands and Upstate.
Action comes on the heels of proposed COLA cuts. Retired public employees will have to pay more for their health care starting in January 2022 following a 9-2 vote Wednesday by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System board. “The basic problem is we have no money to fund health care,” OPERS Executive Director Karen Carraher said.
At first, Dorothy Malcome thought the letter in her hand was a hoax. The letter, from New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and RIP Medical Debt, informed her that $3,000 in medical debt had been wiped clean.
Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani sat down with Medicare administrator Seema Verma at the JPMorgan Health care conference in San Francisco to discuss how the government is planning to handle medicare moving forward.
The start of the year is a time when millions of Americans make promises to improve their lives by changing habits or adopting new ones. Some of the most common resolutions revolve around improving our health: quitting smoking, eating healthier, or exercising more regularly.