The CVS-Aetna merger is still the one to watch in 2018
Lots of mergers have been announced lately, but there’s still one transformative merger that will define and reshape the U.S. health care market in 2018: the CVS/Aetna $69 billion deal announced last December.
CVS is best known for its 9700 retail pharmacies and 1100 walk-in clinics, but its most significant profit driver is its pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) enterprise — a middleman between pharmaceutical manufacturers and dispensers like drugstores. The company …
