SilverScript Insurance releases 2016 Medicare drug plan options
SilverScript Insurance Company, a CVS Health company, announced the company's new Medicare Prescription Drug Plan options for 2016 this week. Read More »
SilverScript Insurance Company, a CVS Health company, announced the company's new Medicare Prescription Drug Plan options for 2016 this week. Read More »
CVS Health said on Friday that it is expanding its partnership with the Arthritis Foundation to help progress advocacy, research and patient support.CVS/specialty, the specialty pharmacy of CVS Health, will be labeled an Arthritis Foundation 'Partner for Better Living' and will be the group's only specialty pharmacy partner. The announcement comes ahead of World Arthritis Day on Monday. Read More »
CVS Health said on Monday that it is opening hearing centers in seven CVS/pharmacy stores in the Dallas and Cleveland markets and will offer optical services through five CVS/pharmacy stores in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. market. Read More »
CVS Health said on Wednesday that it is partnering with top startup accelerator MassChallenge in Boston and digital health venture fund Rock Health in San Francisco to spur innovation and expand areas of focus for connected health solutions. Read More »
CVS/pharmacy is launching initiatives this month aimed at fighting prescription-drug abuse.Among these efforts is increasing the availability of the opioid-overdose reversal medicine naloxone in several states. Read More »
Results released this week from a study conducted by CVS Health Research Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers indicated that a patient's future medication-adherence behavior can be predicted by examining the patient's patterns of medication fills in the first few months after beginning chronic therapy. Read More »
The CVS Health Research Institute recently conducted a study that showed that members of drug benefit plans with narrow pharmacy networks demonstrated improved medication adherence. Read More »
CVS/pharmacy released results on Monday from a survey that found almost two in five U.S. adults (37 percent) have missed a life event because they were feeling ill with flu-like symptoms. "No one wants to get sick with the flu, and getting sick is even worse when it causes us to miss an important life event, such as a vacation, wedding, holiday gathering or a child's big sporting event or recital," Tom Davis, vice president of pharmacy professional practices at CVS/pharmacy, said. Read More »
CVS Health Corporation on Tuesday said it has completed the acquisition of Omnicare, the leading provider of pharmacy services to long-term care facilities, for a total value of almost $12.9 billion. Read More »
New data from the CVS Health Research Institute showed high levels of patient satisfaction with the quality of care delivered through telehealth at MinuteClinic retail medical clinics. Read More »
CVS Health on Tuesday announced the launch of ScriptSync, a pharmacy service that enables patients with multiple medications to pick up their eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly CVS/pharmacy visit. Read More »
CVS Health Corp. said on Monday that it has asked heart specialists to revamp guidelines for treating patients with high cholesterol after the launch of new, expensive medications. Read More »
Boston Medical Center has received a $1.3-million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to support a demonstration project of pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help reduce opioid addiction and overdose death in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Read More »
CVS Health and IBM said on Thursday that they will use predictive analytics and cognitive computing to transform care-management services for patients with chronic diseases. Read More »
CVS Health on June 24 announced it has entered into new clinical affiliations with Sutter Health in California, Millennium Physician Group in Florida, Bryan Health Connect in Nebraska, and Mount Kisco Medical Group in New York. Read More »
CVS Health yesterday announced the opening of its Digital Innovation Lab in Boston, Massachusetts, a facility concentrated on developing advanced digital services and personalized abilities to heighten the personal pharmacy and health experience. Read More »
CVS Executive Vice President and President of CVS/pharmacy Helena Foulkes will be a featured speaker at the Jeffries 2015 Global and Consumer Conference in Nantucket, Massachusetts, CVS Health Corp. said Thursday. Read More »
CVS Health Corp. and Target Corp. said on Monday that they have reached an agreement for CVS Health to purchase Target’s pharmacies and clinics for approximately $1.9 billion.Once the deal is finalized, Target’s more than 1,660 pharmacies across 47 states will be rebranded as CVS/pharmacies, operating within Target stores; Target's approximately 80 clinics will be rebranded as MinuteClinics. Read More »
CVS Health's walk-in clinic, MinuteClinic, recently became an in-network provider with health care insurance provider Molina Healthcare of Ohio. Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CVS Health are forming a partnership in order to promote the use of an online tool that can suggest preventive care services, they announced Tuesday. Read More »