Yahoo Money February 10, 2024
Anjalee Khemlani

The role of retail players in healthcare, like CVS (CVS), Walmart (WMT) and now Amazon (AMZN), is being closely watched by investors and clinicians alike.

In its latest earnings, CVS emphasized a continued strategy in health services, even as competitor Walgreens (WBA) has signaled a pullback. Through its recent acquisitions of home health provider Signify, and primary care provider for seniors Oak Street, CVS is continuing to look for ways to create a closed loop for patients within its own system.

“Oak Street ended the year with 202,000 at risk lives an increase of 27% versus the prior year. Through January, the number of Aetna members enrolled in Oak Street Clinic has doubled,” said CEO Karen Lynch...

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