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OCTOBER 5, 2023

The CVS Health Minority Scholarship for Pharmacy Students was awarded to five outstanding underrepresented minority (URM) student pharmacists who are currently pursuing their PharmD degree. Ama Boamah Ama is a P1 at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and said this: “I am honored to be a recipient of the CVS Health Minority Scholarship.

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Drug Store News

MARCH 1, 2024

CVS Media Exchange is joining forces with Pinterest to bring greater transparency to its partners and CPG brand suppliers.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Medicare Advantage members continue to go to the doctor and get health care procedures a lot more than predicted, CVS Health executives said at the J.P. CVS, a major seller of Medicare Advantage plans, has not yet closed the books on its 2023 finances. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday.

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MARCH 18, 2024

CVS Caremark, the PBM owned by CVS Health that oversees the prescription drug benefits of 103 million people, told its employer clients that it anticipated “more lower-cost products (including specialty biosimilars) may become preferred products” on its lists of approved drugs for 2024, according to documents obtained by STAT.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

CVS Accountable Care and inVio Health Network, a collection of more than 600 providers in South Carolina, are partnering to improve care outcomes for 60,000 Medicare beneficiaries. |

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

CVS is introducing CVS CostVantage and CVS Caremark TrueCost to drive aligned incentives and deliver a more transparent and sustainable reimbursement model while launching the CVS Healthspire brand for its health services segment.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Cara McNulty, president, behavioral health and mental well-being, CVS Health, discusses the resources CVS Health has implemented to prevent suicides as well as programs to help people before or during a mental health crisis.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CVS Health beat the Street on both earnings and revenue in the third quarter, reporting $2.3 billion in profit. | By comparison, the company reported a $3.4 billion loss in the third quarter of 2022 as it paid out its part in a global settlement over the opioid crisis.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CVS Pharmacy will offer a wide assortment of convenient and affordable allergy-friendly and non-food options for Valentine’s Day.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

CVS Pharmacy's loyalty program now includes two membership tiers: ExtraCare and ExtraCare Plus.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

CVS Caremark announced that effective April 1, 2024, Humira will be removed from its major national commercial template formularies and Humira biosimilars will be covered.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2023

CVS Health is overhauling the way it reimburses its pharmacies for prescription medications as the healthcare industry faces increased scrutiny for high drug prices. | CVS Health is overhauling the way it reimburses its pharmacies for prescription medications as the healthcare industry faces increased scrutiny on high drug prices.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

CVS Health is perhaps best known for two things. If it seems like there’s a CVS pharmacy on every other block, that’s because the company operates 9,000 stores nationwide, including nearly 500 across Massachusetts. But CVS has become much more than a pharmacy colossus. The company, based in Woonsocket, R.I.,

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Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

CVS Health is focused on addressing the concerns raised by its pharmacists so it can continue to deliver the high-quality care its patients depend on, the retailer said.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After spending nearly $20 billion to pick up Signify Health and Oak Street Health this year, CVS rebranded its health services business to "CVS Healthspire" as it plots its long-term growth strateg | After spending nearly $20 billion to pick up Signify Health and Oak Street Health this year, CVS rebranded its health services business to "CVS (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There's another shake-up at the top for CVS Health, the retail health giant announced Monday. There's another shake-up at the top for CVS Health, the retail health giant announced Monday.

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Drug Topics

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

CVS is the first pharmacy to offer this service nationwide.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CVS Health’s total revenues for the third quarter increased to $89.8 billion, up 10.6% compared to the prior year.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Several CVS Health executives now have expanded responsibilities, while the company also welcomes Brian Kane as president of Aetna.

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MARCH 1, 2024

The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an  abortion pill in a few states within weeks. CVS Health will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts “in the weeks ahead,” spokeswoman Amy Thibault said Friday. Read the rest…

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

APRIL 5, 2024

Testing of 40 types of bandages made by companies such as Band-Aid, Curad, Walmart and CVS found 26 products, or 65%, contain alarming levels of a marker of PFAS. The chemicals were detected in the adhesive flaps and in absorbent pads that press against wounds. Continue reading.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Ohio Board of Pharmacy found during several inspections that some CVS stores in the state had dirty conditions, a lack of control over dangerous medications, and months-long wait times for medications.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 12, 2023

CVS Caremark is teaming with GoodRx to provide pharmacy discounts to commercial plan customers. | CVS Caremark is teaming with GoodRx to provide pharmacy discounts to commercial plan customers.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

CVS is voluntarily removing certain cough and cold medicines that contain phenylephrine from its shelves and will no longer sell them.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

The annual Paragon Awards recognize the best of the best among CVS Health colleagues and are among the highest honors awarded by the company.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

… Starting April 1, CVS Health will no longer offer AbbVie’s Humira to patients in its commercial prescription plans and, instead, will direct them to biosimilar versions of the anti-inflammatory drug that became available last year , Bloomberg News writes. Hope you have a smashing day and, of course, do stay in touch.

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Drug Store News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

CVS is introducing CostVantage and Caremark TrueCost to drive aligned incentives and deliver a more transparent and sustainable reimbursement model.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Sri Narasimhan, VP and head of enterprise customer experience at CVS Health, discusses using a customer-centric approach to cultivate higher retail pharmacy expectations among the public.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

CVS Health plans to start closing dozens of pharmacies in Target locations in February.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

CVS Health will remove AbbVie’s immunology blockbuster Humira from national lists of reimbursable products, and offer biosimilars of the drug instead

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In an SEC filing on Wednesday CVS said that it is “determined that its LTC business was no longer a strategic asset, and during the third quarter of 2022 committed to a plan to sell.”

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Digital Pharmacist

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent weeks, the pharmacy industry has been shaken up as staff walkouts at CVS and Walgreens captured the attention of pharmacy teams and patients alike. What are the CVS & Walgreens Walkouts? Twelve CVS locations in the Kansas City, Missouri region shut down on September 21st and 22nd due to walkouts.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 4, 2024

This year, CVS Health plans to employ the classic "out with the old, in with the new" mantra when it comes to AbbVie’s Humira. | The changes to major commercial formularies will take effect April 1 and favor Humira biosimilar options over the branded drug as part of CVS' efforts to ramp up U.S. biosimilar adoption.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 15, 2023

More than two dozen healthcare payers and providers, including CVS, Premera Blue Cross and Mass General Brigham, are making voluntary safety, security and transparency commitments to the White Hous | More than two dozen healthcare payers and providers are making voluntary safety, security and transparency commitments to the White House regarding the (..)

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JANUARY 17, 2024

A CVS Health/Harris Poll survey reveals 84% of consumers say pharmacists play a critical role in providing healthcare services to patients.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Certain employees at CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance pharmacies are staging a three day walkout this week, per a Reuters report.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

CVS Health said it does not expect any impact on its customer-facing colleagues in its stores, pharmacies, clinics or customer services centers.

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