The health sector holds many of the best job opportunities for workers in 2025, due to factors like high labor demand and pay, according to a new ranking from job search site Indeed.
State officials offered assurances to residents and employees Monday that three Connecticut hospitals owned by Prospect Medical Holdings would remain open and operating, despite their parent company filing for bankruptcy late Saturday night. The California-based hospital operator, which also owns facilities in California, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, filed for chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Northern Texas. In a statement, representatives for the company said the filing would allow Prospect to "proceed on a strategic pathway to realign its organizational focus outside of California." Speaking at the Capitol Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont said the hospitals would stay open and that officials would hold Prospect accountable to providing high-quality care.
Over the last four years, health systems across the United States have phased out the use of several clinical tools that use race to predict patient outcomes, replacing them with race-free versions that carry less risk of perpetuating inequitable care. But there's a wide world of other calculators and algorithms used to make decisions about patients every day — many of which use race, sex, and other traits protected by federal anti-discrimination laws. As a deadline for federally funded health systems to vet those tools for discrimination approaches in May, it's still unclear how they'll tackle the challenge.
The pharmaceutical industry's biggest investment conference drew protesters in San Francisco Monday with signs reading "delay, deny, depose," words prosecutors said were written on shell casings found at the scene of a health insurance executive's killing last month. Across the street from the entrance of the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco where the JPMorgan Healthcare conference was being held, some two dozen protesters chanted "healthcare is a human right" and said drugmakers share blame with insurers for high costs and lack of access to care.
Insurers who administer private Medicare plans could see a more than $21 billion pay increase in 2026 under a plan proposed by the Biden administration. The adjustment would be a boon for UnitedHealth Group, the country's largest Medicare Advantage insurer. Other major MA players like Humana and CVS Health would also benefit. The Trump administration will have discretion over how the final policy looks, and analysts expect the ultimate pay increase to be even higher. The Biden administration proposed raising plans' base payment by about 2% next year. But the insurers in reality would get an average 4.3% increase in overall revenue once rates are adjusted for how sick their enrollees appear, CMS says.
At a news conference where lawmakers said they were fuming, there came assurances that Crozer Chester Medical Center would remain open while its parent company, in seeking a Chapter 11 reorganization, searches for a buyer.