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Many of you have already heard the news: CVS is buying Aetna for $69 billion. As the New York Times reports: Together, the companies touch most of the basic health services that people regularly use, providing an opportunity to benefit consumers. CVS operates a chain of pharmacies and retail clinics that could be used by…
CVS is in talks to buy Aetna for $66 billion. This would be a merger between one of the largest pharmacy benefits managers (PBM) in the country and the third largest insurer. A successful deal could push millions of Aetna’s members toward CVS’s retail pharmacies, walk-in Minute Clinics, and services such as home visits for…
CVS is the second largest pharmacy in the U.S. with over 7000 stores. Caremark Pharmacy Services is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company, providing benefit management services to health plans. In March of 2007 the two firms merged. The combined firm not only has $99 billion in sales, CVS Caremark also has the ability not to…