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Aetna Inc. (/ ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET-nə) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare.
For example, the vertical integration of the three largest PBMs, CVS Caremark, Cigna Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, in which each owns their own insurance companies and pharmacies, allows PBMs to divert patients away from nonaffiliated independent pharmacies and toward their affiliated pharmacies.
CVS Specialty is the specialty pharmacy division that provides specialty pharmacy services for individuals with chronic or genetic diseases who require complex and expensive drug therapies. CVS Health operate 24 retail specialty pharmacy stores and 11 specialty mail order pharmacies, making them the largest specialty pharmacy in the United States.
CVS Caremark (formerly Caremark Rx) (stylized as CVScaremark, previously CVS/caremark) is the pharmacy benefit management subsidiary of CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Company history
John Rowe, chief executive officer of Aetna from 2000 to 2006 [27] V. J. Skutt , president and chief executive officer of Mutual of Omaha until 1984, [ 28 ] later named chairman emeritus [ 29 ] Brian Thompson , chief executive office of UnitedHealthcare from 2021 until his killing in 2024 [ 30 ]
In December 2017 CVS Health announced a deal to acquire Aetna. [40] On October 10, 2018, CVS Health received approval from the United States Department of Justice to acquire Aetna, for $69 billion. [41] CVS on Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This store opened in 2014. CVS announced it would close 46 "underperforming stores" in 2019, and a ...
The company was acquired by CVS Health in September 2014 and is operated as a separate brand and business of CVS, headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company mainly operates in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties and currently has 28 stores. Navarro Discount Pharmacies has a 17% market share in South Florida, ahead of Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy. [1]
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