Medicare Advantage provider Clover Health (CLOV) is both despised and loved, depending on whom you ask. The newly-public company has earned a prized status among top meme stocks. But the company is also facing significant backlash in the form of lawsuits after a scathing report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research. [Read more: Clover Health CEO speaks out for first time on hospital controversies] It’s something the company’s normally media-shy CEO, Vivek Garipalli, recently discussed in… Source link
Read More »Clover Health CEO speaks out for first time on hospital controversies
Clover Health (CLOV) CEO Vivek Garipalli has had a tumultuous year following the company’s merger with Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC. Though now a meme stock, it’s battling lawsuits spurred by a report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research alleging the company withheld information about legal issues from investors. It isn’t the health care executive’s first run-in with criticism about his business practices. Three New Jersey hospitals he owned and operated, with two partners, made… Source link
Read More »Clover Health adds grocery benefit, Walmart online food delivery
Clover Health (CLOV) is joining other Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in offering a grocery benefit to its members, an option that was first made available by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2018. Clover CEO Vivek Garipalli told Yahoo Finance the goal is to help alleviate health-determining factors, known in the industry as social determinants of health, which include access to healthy food. Major MA players like Humana (HUM) and Centene (CNC) have already begun to… Source link
Read More »Clover Health rides Reddit-fueled ‘meme stock’ wave amid record-high trading volume
Shares of Clover Health Investments, Corp. () breached their previous 52-week high of $24.93 in pre-market Wednesday morning. This added to a total increase in the stock’s value of over 110% in the past week amid a to short the stock. Following market open, its price fell just below Tuesday’s close $22.15. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tennessee, Clover Health is a Medicare-backed insurance seller with 458 full-time employees and provides preferred provider organization and health… Source link
Read More »Chamath-Backed Clover Health in Apparent Squeeze with Massive Short Interest Reminiscent of GameStop
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