In 2014, Caremark was accused of manipulating how drug costs were reported, prompting Aetna and SilverScript to submit false ...

Chief Judge Mitchell Goldberg tripled to $285 million the damages he had ordered CVS Caremark to pay in June, citing the ...

CVS Caremark, CVS Health’s (NYSE:CVS) pharmacy benefit manager, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $289.9M in damages ...

A federal judge has ordered CVS Caremark to pay nearly $290 million in damages after determining the pharmacy benefit manager overbilled Medicare for prescription drugs, according to court documents ...

Hardly: About $8.5 billion will be transferred to Aetna shareholders from CVS (based on the $26 premium to be paid for their shares in cash and CVS stock over Aetna’s price Friday).

The CVS/Aetna deal reeks of conflicts of interests on multiple levels and is not evidently appealing to shareholders in the short term, as it will take time to digest.

They may soon face another big test. CVS Health, the largest pharmacy, is reportedly in talks to buy Aetna for $66bn (see article), in what would be the country’s biggest-ever health-insurance deal.

A linked Aetna-CVS could presumably better manage the cost of prescription drugs, driving utilization toward better value products and getting a better deal on pharmaceuticals, said Laurence Baker ...

CVS Health is buying Aetna for $69 billion in cash and stock in a long-expected deal that reflects a rapidly shifting health care landscape. Aetna stockholders are to receive around $207 a share ...

CVS Health Corp. CVS 2.06% and Aetna Inc. stockholders have voted to approve the pharmacy company’s acquisition of the health insurer. More than 98% of the shares voted were in favor of the ...

CVS Health Corp. plans to buy Aetna Inc. for $69 billion in a blockbuster deal that would further consolidate the U.S. healthcare industry by merging the nation’s largest pharmacy chain with a ...