Tag: CVS Health
In brief: CVS doubles down on HealthHUBs, CMS seeks input on paperwork burden
June 7, 2019HME News Staff
WOONSOCKET, R.I. - CVS Health will open additional HealthHUBs in Houston this year, as well as in Atlanta, Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey and Tampa, the company announced as part of its 2019 Investor Day on June 4.CVS Health plans to have a total of 1,500 HealthHUBs operating by the end of 2021.“HealthHUBs are a powerful example of how CVS Health can provide consumers with convenient, personalized and integrated access to local health care,” the company stated.CVS began piloting HealthHUBs...
CVS-Aetna deal casts chilling shadow over pharmacy landscape
December 8, 2017Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - If a planned merger between CVS Health and Aetna goes through, community pharmacists say it could flatten the industry.“It's going to have a terrible negative impact on privately-owned pharmacies,” said Steve Nelson, CEO and president of Okeechobee Discount Drugs in Okeechobee, Fla. “They've got a pharmacy benefit manager (CVS CareMark) and now an insurance company. They'll be in direct competition with physicians, they'll sell you policies, you'll see their clinicians—there's...