What You Should Know: - Today, CVS Health announced that it will expand Return Ready, the company’s comprehensive COVID-19 solution that helps employers and schools return and maintain healthy communities, with scalable vaccine clinics to accommodate smaller workplaces/communities and schools given the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adolescents ages 12 to 15. - Small businesses and schools with more than
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CVS Health Launches $100M Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know: - CVS Health announced the formation of CVS Health Ventures, a $100M corporate venture capital fund that will focus on companies with the potential for technology-enabled innovation and disruption in digital health care that are anchored in CVS Health's core strategy. - CVS Health Ventures will build relationships with early-stage digital health companies via investment as well as by offering expertise and insights from CVS Health's unique perspective. - To date,
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CVS Health Launches Employer-Based COVID-19 Vaccination Program
What You Should Know: Today, CVS Health announced it recently began administering COVID-19 vaccines at employer-based vaccination clinics through Return Ready, the company’s comprehensive COVID-19 solution that helps employers return and maintain healthy workforces. - With vaccine hesitancy on the rise, federal and state governments are looking to partners, like employers and CVS Health, to help by making vaccines more convenient to access and enhancing public education
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Aetna Launches Connected Plan with CVS Health in St. Louis Market
What You Should Know: - The Aetna Connected Plan with CVS Health™ is a first-of-its-kind plan offering that will deliver CVS Health® and Aetna's combined capabilities in the St. Louis market to help members access care when and where they need it – and at a more affordable price than a traditional plan. - The plan combines Aetna's cost-saving performance network with access to expanded services at CVS Health retail and pharmacy. Members enjoy peace of mind with quality in-network providers
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CVS Health Inks Larger PBM Contract with Federal Employee Program, Adds Specialty Pharmacy Care
What You Should Know: - Today, CVS Caremark, the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) of CVS Health announced a larger PBM contract with the Government-wide Service Benefit Plan (also known as the Federal Employee Program), which has provided benefits to the federal workforce for 60 years and covers 5.5 million employees, retirees and their families. CVS Health has been the pharmacy benefit manager for the Service Benefit Plan since 1993 and has partnered with them to provide and evolve the
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CVS Launches Community-Based Strategy to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity
What Should Know: - CVS Health unveils community-based strategy increase access to COVID-19 vaccinations for vulnerable communities and advance vaccine education while combating hesitancy. - The strategy includes a strategic partnership with Lyft to help underserved communities access vaccination appointments by providing free or discounted rides for those in need. CVS Health unveils its community-based strategy to address potential inequities related to COVID-19 vaccine access in
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CVS Health Launches Senior Medical Alert System, Symphony
What You Should Know: - Today, CVS Health announced Symphony, a medical alert
system designed to keep seniors safe and connected at home. - Symphony consists of a collection of in-home and wearable devices that offer a new at-home experience by connecting a suite of sensors that can monitor for falls, motion, and room temperature while also providing a 24/7 personal emergency response platform for use when needed. CVS Health, today announced the release of Symphony medical
alert
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CVS Health to Provide In-Home Chemotherapy with Cancer Treatment Centers of America
What You Should Know: - Today, CVS Health announced a collaboration with Cancer
Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) to provide in-home chemotherapy for
clinically eligible and fully insured patients. - The program, which leverages CVS Health’s home infusion
service, Coram, and CTCA’s expertise as a top oncology care provider, aims to
minimize immunocompromised patients’ exposure to COVID-19 by offering an
alternative to inpatient or in-office cancer care. - Through this program,
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Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific Form Alliance for Employer-based COVID-19 Testing
What You Should Know: - Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific join forces to
promote employer-based testing As part of a comprehensive COVID-19 testing strategy. - The coalition, named Workplace Employers Alliance for
COVID-19 Testing (WE ACT), believes
that employer-based testing programs are essential to keeping employees safe
during the current public health emergency. - WE ACT aims to
advance a comprehensive national testing strategy that includes clear guidance
for the
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HHS Taps CVS Health for Pilot to Administer COVID-19 Therapy to Patients At Home & Long-Term Care Facilities
What You Should Know: - Today, CVS Health was selected by HHS, as part of
Operation Warp Speed, to pilot the administration of a limited supply of
bamlanivimab, a monoclonal antibody therapy, with eligible COVID-19 patients
at-risk of severe infection or complications resulting from the virus. - Under this pilot, Coram, the specialty pharmacy and
infusion care business of CVS Health, will administer the intravenous therapy
in patients’ homes or long-term care facilities to help meet the
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