The country’s largest pharmacy chain said it needed a C.D.C. panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.
Category: CVS Caremark Corporation
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Why Patients Are Being Forced to Switch to a 2nd-Choice Obesity Drug
CVS Caremark decided to stop offering Zepbound in favor of Wegovy for weight loss. It’s the latest example of limits imposed by insurance that disrupt treatments for patients.
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Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors
The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns.
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New CVS App Lets Customers Unlock Cabinets to Pick Up Products
The company said the unlocking function, part of a pilot program in New York City, will be expanded this year.
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Drugmakers Paid PBMs Not to Restrict Opioid Prescriptions
Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Seek to Break Up Giant Health Care Conglomerates
New legislation would force UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna to each sell their pharmacies within three years.
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The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business
The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.
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CVS Ousts Karen Lynch as C.E.O. and Shares Fall
Shares of the health care conglomerate dropped after the sudden departure of Karen Lynch and a downbeat update on the state of the company’s finances.
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F.T.C. Accuses Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices
The case takes aim at the major pharmacy benefit managers, agency officials said, claiming that they favored more expensive insulin products and forced patients to pay more.
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Hot Summer Threatens Efficacy of Mail-Order Medications
The temperatures inside delivery trucks can reach twice the recommended threshold, but federal rules on drug storage conditions do not apply to the booming world of mail-order delivery.
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F.T.C. Says Middlemen Seem to Drive Up Drug Prices
In a report, the regulator sharply criticized pharmacy benefit managers, a reversal from its longstanding hands-off approach to policing the companies.
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Stanley Goldstein, Who Helped Make CVS a Pharmacy Giant, Dies at 89
The small chain that he, a brother and a third partner opened in 1963 had become the nation’s largest by the time he retired as its chief executive three decades later.