MedPage Today February 28, 2018
‘Your testimony has been very encouraging,’ says subcommittee chair
WASHINGTON — The proposed merger of pharmacy giant and pharmacy benefit manager CVS with health insurer Aetna could actually bring more business to some primary care providers, a CVS official told a House subcommittee.
“Sixty-two million Americans don’t have access to adequate primary care,” Thomas Moriarty, executive vice president of CVS Health, said at a hearing on competition in the pharmaceutical supply chain held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.
He noted that 50% of those visiting a CVS Minute Clinic urgent care facility don’t have a primary care physician. When a Minute Clinic first goes into an area, “We ask [primary care physicians] if...
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