CVS Health President and CEO Karen Lynch said the company is looking to push into offering primary care options to patients, which would increase its ambitious vertical system offerings, Becker’s reports.
CVS Health, which acquired Aetna in 2018, has already moved toward becoming a major integrated healthcare player with its pharmacy, insurance management and retail components. Its push into primary care represents another step that would compete with hospitals and health systems.
“We really believe that we need to kind of push into primary care so we can influence the overall cost of care,” Lynch said in an analyst conference call.
On the call, Lynch was asked whether this meant CVS Health would employ physicians, which she did not directly answer. Read more.
