The pending merger between CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc.—their “grand experiment”—stands to disrupt current health care models in more ways than one, experts say. The key, of course, is execution.
If CVS and Aetna complete the $69 billion deal they announced this past December, the combined company would have 9,700 CVS Pharmacy stores, 1,100 MinuteClinic walk-in clinics, and about 4,000 CVS Health clinic and home care nurses. CVS says it intends to operate Aetna as a stand-alone business; CVS Caremark already serves as Aetna's pharmacy benefits manager (PBM).
CVS, as an integrated health care company, would also offer community-based health hubs, “dedicated to connecting the pathways needed to improve health and answering patients' questions about their health conditions, as well as prescriptions drugs and health coverage.”
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
