Health Populi October 12, 2018
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

CVS Health’s acquisition of Aetna was approved this week by U.S. Federal regulators after months of scrutinizing the antitrust-size-market control implications of the deal.

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

The nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain signed a deal to combine with one of the top three health insurance companies. The deal is valued at $69 billion.

CVS is both the biggest pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager in the U.S., as the first...

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Topics: Healthcare System, Insurance, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Payer, Pharma, Provider, Retail care, Trends
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