Market Value of Insurers, Drugstores Drops on Amazon Plans to Sell Prescription Drugs November 17, 2020 By Cristin Flanagan The leading drugstores, drug distributors and health insurers lost about $22 billion in market value Tuesday after Amazon.com Inc. revealed...
How Pharmacies Are Resisting Amazon’s Attempt to Corner Their Business September 19, 2019 By Robert Langreth Getting into the pharmacy business was easy for Amazon.com: It paid $753 million to buy the mail-order startup PillPack. The...
Reimagining Health Care After CVS Takeover of Aetna: Viewpoint December 28, 2018 By Max Nisen CVS Health Corp. CEO Larry Merlo is a 28-year veteran of the company who helped lead its transformation from a...
CVS-Aetna Merger Will Influence Employers’ Benefits Decisions: Aon December 18, 2017 By Caroline Humer CVS Corp.’s proposed purchase of Aetna Inc. will affect decision-making by a majority of large and mid-size U.S. corporations on...
CVS to Pay $67.5B for Aetna to Create Giant Health Firm with ‘10,000 New Front Doors’ December 3, 2017 By Zachary Tracer and Robert Langreth CVS Health Corp. will buy Aetna Inc. for about $67.5 billion, creating a healthcare giant that will have a hand...
Pharmacy Cost in Workers’ Compensation Continues to Fall: CompPharma Survey November 15, 2017 Workers’ compensation payers saw an average 11 percent reduction in their pharmacy spend in 2016, driven by a 13.3 percent...
Employers Struggle to Manage Benefits Covering Specialty Drugs March 10, 2017 Twenty-seven percent of employers are offering their employees a high deductible plan with co-insurance as part of their specialty drug...