Building Community Health During the Pandemic and Beyond

Improving community health isn't just something that we're trying to support through philanthropic activities or investments – it's one of the primary goals of our company and influences our overall strategy.

 CVS Health and Uber Health partner on free medical transportation to reduce barriers to care

CVS Health is continuing its tread on the path to health equity with a new partnership with Uber Health. The collaboration, part of the pharmacy giant’s Health Zones initiative, will give people in underserved communities free rides to medical care, work or education.

 CVS Health Launches $25 Million Ad Campaign Focused on ‘Healthy’

The campaign is meant to drive awareness of the company’s role in peoples’ lives as they take steps toward being healthier and use more digital tools to do so.

 CVS Looks To Make Its Drugstores A Destination For Health Care

When it comes to making changes in health care, CVS Health isn't settling for tinkering around the edges. The company is looking to strike at the heart of how health care is delivered in the U.S.

 The Pandemic May Have Saved CVS

But while the pandemic may have, to some degree, kept customers out of CVS, it also helped draw customers in -- especially over the past quarter, once CVS became a well-known provider of coronavirus vaccines. In addition to vaccines, CVS has also served as a testing center for the coronavirus, which has also helped get customers in the door.

CVS Health and Microsoft announce new strategic alliance to reimagine personalized care and accelerate digital transformation

“We are rapidly transforming into a consumer-centric, integrated health solutions company, taking a digital-first, technology forward approach to all that we do,” said Roshan Navagamuwa, Chief Information Officer, CVS Health.

CVS Trial Would Provide Access To Mental Health Services

Drug store chain CVS is piloting a program to bring mental health counseling into 12 retail stores. The goal is to improve access to care, and reduce medical costs associated with poor mental health.

A merger between CVS Health and Aetna could be what the doctor ordered

Vertical integration could put a brake on America’s unsustainably soaring health-care costs.

As Amazon considers getting into drugs, CVS looks for cover in health insurance

The acquisition of Aetna, which Reuters reports as being sought for about $66 billion, would give CVS more leverage when negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. That’s increasingly important as drug companies are under pressure to rein in drug costs.

CVS had every advantage, but it lost the pandemic. Here's what happened

The future of CVS is not selling snacks, candy, shampoo and greeting cards. It's in health care.

CVS merger with Aetna: Health care cure or curse?

Should American consumers be happy or concerned about the proposed merger? As a professor of health law and bioethics, I see compelling arguments on both sides.

CVS, Walmart and Walgreens fueled opioid crisis, US jury finds

It was the first time pharmacy companies had completed a trial to defend themselves in a drug crisis that has killed half a million Americans over the past two decades.

How CVS, Teladoc and Google Health view consumerism during COVID-19

“The only victor in war is medicine. We’re in a war right now. It happens to be with a virus, but the victor in this could be medicine because we are able to do things, such as having doctors be licensed across state lines, that we’ve spent years trying to do.

You Don’t Have to Boycott CVS

The dispute over birth control has everything to do with corporate profits and little to do with health care.