CVS Health breakup will create separate pharmacy and health care companies as industry expert weighs the impact on prescription drug prices, pharmacies and patients.
The company is splitting its drugstore and insurance businesses amid mounting regulatory pressure.
Analysts say that after a roughly two-year turnaround the company's retail pharmacy business and other units may be strong enough to stand on their own.
CVS Health plans to spin off its retail pharmacy business into a new company called CVS Pharmacy in the first half of 2028. The move will separate the drugstore business from the Aetna insurance unit and Caremark prescription benefits division, with both companies to be publicly traded. Bloomberg's John Tozzi joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)
CVS Health’s decision to split comes amid federal and state scrutiny over vertical integration.
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CVS Pharmacy will be separate from CVS Health, housing major insurer Aetna and benefits manager Caremark CVS Health, the largest US healthcare conglomerate valued at $117bn, has announced its plans split off its pharmacy chain from its health insurance and benefits businesses, ending an era in which healthcare companies grew into massive conglomerates. In their announcement on Wednesday, CVS Health said they will split off its 9,000 pharmacies, in-store clinics and mail order prescription business into a business named CVS Pharmacy. Continue reading...
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In a breakup planned for 2028, CVS Health intends to split off its pharmacies into a new company, while keeping together its businesses in insurance and pharmacy benefits.
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The healthcare giant surprised analysts with the decision to separate its business.
The move would reverse the company's $78 billion acquisition of Aetna, and dismantle the vertically integrated healthcare conglomerate it created in 2018.
CVS Health raised its full-year guidance on gains in its health-care benefits and pharmacy segments, but said it remains cautious amid high costs and potential macroeconomic headwinds.
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