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BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) Q1 earnings: Leading the senior health, home health & hospice pack StockStory; by Jabin Bastian; 5/22/25 The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) and the rest of the senior health, home health & hospice stocks fared in Q1. ... The 7 senior health, home health & hospice stocks we track reported a strong Q1. As a group, revenues beat analysts’ consensus estimates by 2.3%. ... 

UnitedHealth urges shareholders to back CEO’s $60M pay package Becker's Payer Issues; by Rylee Wilson; 5/20/25 UnitedHealth Group is asking shareholders to support a $60 million stock option award for its new CEO. In a May 20 letter to shareholders, Christopher Zaetta, UnitedHealth’s chief legal officer, urged shareholders to approve the company’s executive compensation. Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy advisory firm, has advised shareholders to vote no on UnitedHealth’s “say-on-pay” proposal. The company appointed Stephen Hemsley, who led the company from 2006 to 2017, as CEO in May. Mr. Hemsley will receive a $1 million annual salary, but will not receive any annual cash incentives. Instead, he will receive a $60 million stock option after three years as CEO. ISS recommended shareholders vote no because nearly all of Mr. Hemsley’s compensation will be in stock option awards, and fluctuations in stock price could lead to a “windfall” for the CEO. 

5 energy-boosting ways to overcome your leadership fatigue Fast Company - Mindfulness at Work; by Katharine Manning; 5/16/25 Leaders today are stretched to the breaking point. Many managers enter their roles wanting to coach and care for their teams. But in today’s workplace, that vision is colliding with a lengthening list of competing pressures: performance metrics, shifting workplace norms, and the unrelenting emotional labor of guiding teams through crisis after crisis. As one manager told me, “I want to be an empathetic leader and support my team, but we still have to make the numbers. Mostly, I just stay later myself.” Another admitted, “Last year I ended up in the hospital.” ... How Managers Can Overcome Leadership Exhaustion: ...

'Legendary' Hemsley takes over at UnitedHealth amid rough seas Modern Healthcare; by Nona Tepper; 5/14/25 Stephen Hemsley returns to the top spot at a UnitedHealth Group that looks very different from the one he helmed almost a decade ago and faces trouble bubbling up in its Optum healthcare services subsidiary. Over the past three years, the company has reported rising Medicare Advantage costs in its UnitedHealthcare insurance subsidiary. But some see Optum as more concerning. With Andrew Witty resigning as CEO on Tuesday [5/13], it falls to Hemsley to right the ship.

Building an ethical culture: Leadership’s role in corporate integrity The Wall Street Journal; by Lori Pressler, Michael Rossen and Miira Velia; 5/7/25 Built from the top down, a strong ethical culture can help mitigate risk by weaving ethics into decision-making at every level. Much of the time, a single moment or lapse in judgment does not precipitate a crisis. Instead, corporate scandals tend to spring from systemic failures in corporate culture, specifically around ethics. However, within many organizations, ethics are often discussed in theoretical terms—lofty yet nebulous aspirations or nice-to-haves. ... Given its potential for harm, organizations may not be giving ethical risk the attention it deserves, particularly from the top down. 

The Carilion office driving 139 projects Becker's Hospital Review; by Kelly Gooch; 5/5/25 Roughly five years ago, Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic recognized the need for an organizational pivot to better align system strategic plans with major operational initiatives. That led to the creation of its Enterprise Project Management Office, which leaders say has already yielded results. At the outset, senior leaders sought to build an internal group that could consistently implement and support the organization’s strategic plan.  Carilion — an integrated health system with seven hospitals, home health services, imaging, pharmacies, urgent care centers, a ground and air transportation network and a more than 800-member multispecialty physician group — had previously housed pockets of project management within various departments, ... However, the health system’s goal was more standardization, as many project managers were splitting their time between project management and day-to-day operations.

Special Report: Examining group health coverage alternatives for small employers - update JDSupra; by Alden Bianchi, Sarah Raaii, Teal Trujillo, Erin Turley, Allison Wilkerson; 4/23/25 ... Small employers’ efforts to provide robust major medical coverage to workers and their families have long proven futile, primarily due to underwriting challenges. Groups of under 50 employees are often relegated to state small group market coverage, which tends to be expensive. ... This Special Report examines the options available to small employers – and the obstacles they routinely encounter – as they seek to make affordable health insurance coverage available to their employees and their families.

Inside Amazon's strategy to partner with digital health companies Modern Healthcare; by Brock E.W. Turner; 4/15/25 While Amazon's splashy acquisitions have generated significant buzz, a foundational piece of the technology and e-commerce giant's healthcare business is focused on partnerships with digital health companies. Amazon launched its Health Benefits Connector in January 2024 with digital health unicorn Omada Health for patients with high blood pressure and diabetes. The service allows users to input information about their insurance plan and potentially identify covered services from Amazon’s partners. 

The modern health care professional: How to combine skills from different fields to redefine your career MedPage Today's KevinMD.com; by Jalene Jacob, MD, MBA; 4/11/25 Gone are the days when careers followed linear paths and job titles neatly fit into predefined boxes. Today’s health care industry celebrates versatility, and hybrid professionals are redefining what it means to succeed. A hybrid health care professional combines skills and expertise from different fields, blending knowledge to create unique value in the health care space. Whether you’re a nurse with coding skills, a doctor with a passion for data analysis and research, or a biomedical engineer with a talent for design and business, hybridization is becoming the new competitive advantage. This article explores how early professionals can harness their diverse interests and talents to shape their careers and stand out in a rapidly evolving job market.

What role do immigrants play in the direct long-term care workforce? KFF; by Priya Chidambaram and Drishti Pillai; 4/2/25 President Trump has made a slew of immigration policy changes focused on restricting entry at the border and increasing interior enforcement efforts to support mass deportation. While these actions are focused on undocumented immigrants, they likely will have ripple effects across immigrants of all statuses and millions more people living in immigrant families. Mass deportations could negatively impact the U.S. economy and workforce, given the role immigrants play, particularly in certain industries. ...

The evolution of work: How Gen Z is reshaping leadership and workplace culture Forbes; by First Place For Youth - Jayme Catalano; 4/2/25 As Generation Z enters the workforce in growing numbers, they are bringing fresh perspectives and expectations that are reshaping the traditional workplace. This digital-native generation, born between 1997 and 2012, is driving significant changes in management styles, work environments, and organizational values. Their influence is prompting companies to adapt, evolve and innovate, creating a new paradigm for the future of work.

Ohio payer beats UnitedHealthcare in racketeering lawsuit, awarded $50M Becker's Payer Issues; by Jakob Emerson; 3/19/25 An Ohio jury awarded Medical Mutual of Ohio over $50 million in damages on March 12 after the payer prevailed in its lawsuit against FrontPath Health Coalition and HealthScope Benefits, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare. FrontPath offers employee benefits solutions, and HealthScope is a third-party administrator. .. The defendants were found to have committed federal wire fraud, telecommunications fraud, tampered with records, and obstructed justice by submitting false bid information. The jury found that the conspiracy resulted in significant damages to Medical Mutual and ultimately caused taxpayers to pay higher healthcare costs than necessary.

5 must-watch TED Talks that will make you a better leader right now Inc; by Peter Economy; 3/21/25Back in 1978, historian and leadership guru James MacGregor Burns said, “Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.” While that assessment of leadership may have once been true, I think it’s no longer the case. Today, leadership is a well-understood phenomenon. There are a variety of ways to take your leadership to the next level. Here are five extremely popular—and powerful—TED Talks that will help you do just that. [TED Talk videos are embedded in this article.]