CVS-Aetna Merger – a Good Deal?

CVS Health and Aetna closed their $69 billion merger on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 bringing together one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains with health insurance giant Aetna yet, there are still many unanswered questions. What about antitrust implications? Will this merger reduce healthcare costs?

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What is Pharmacy’s Response to Amazon Entering the Pharmacy Market?

Analysts are saying that Amazon’s possible entry into the pharmacy market could be a “massive threat” to chain and independent retail pharmacy business. So what is pharmacy’s response? The answer is in this headline: CVS Health will launch a new

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Get your prescription filled by Amazon Pharmacy?

Amazon hasn’t said publicly what its plans are in pharmacy, but that hasn’t stopped a constant onslaught of questions from industry analysts, PBM executives and pharmacy chains about the potential for Amazon to get into the prescription business.  While we

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