Bertha Coombs

Bertha Coombs reports on financial markets and health care services for CNBC on-air and online. She has chronicled the rise of telehealth, the expansion of government-funded health coverage, and how the increasingly vertical integration of health plans, providers, and retailers is changing the landscape of consumer health care—all trends which have accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Coombs has been with CNBC for 20 years. Prior to joining CNBC, she reported for Yahoo Finance and ABC News.