Whistleblower Sarah Behnke's lawsuit leads to a $290 million judgment against CVS Caremark for overcharging Medicare on ...

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) stock is starting rise off its five-year lows after a strong Q2 earnings and U.S. Department of Justice resolutionto permit the company to merge with Aetna.

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.

“CVS Health and Aetna have been one company since November 2018, and today’s action by the District Court makes that 100 percent clear,” a CVS spokesman, T. J. Crawford, said in a statement.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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).

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.

CVS Health is paying $70 billion to Aetna shareholders, and it is also taking responsibility for $8 billion in Aetna debt. CVS Health, has stock that trades on the New York Stock Exchange, under ...

CVS Health Corp. will pay about $207 in cash and stock for each share of Aetna Inc., according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced publicly.