The company promoted new leadership with the departure of the heads of its Pharmacy and Caremark divisions. Dr. Alan Lotvin, who spent several years heading up Caremark's specialty drug efforts, was promoted to president of CVS Caremark.
Cigna's sharpened focus on healthcare is evidenced by a number of recent moves, including, most notably its $54 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts last year.
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The so-called Destination: Health network will launch later this year with Aetna Medicaid members in Louisville, Kentucky and Aetna dual-eligible special needs plan members in Tampa, Florida and Southeastern Louisiana.
The retail pharmacy chain has expanded its direct-to-consumer telemedicine offerings and charted out where it plans to open new HealthHUB locations next year.
The expansion builds on an initial pilot that opened up three HealthHUB locations in Houston earlier this year. HealthHUBs will open around 50 additional locations in Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, southern New Jersey and Tampa later this year.
If Cardiogram's technology highlights a potential issue of atrial fibrillation or diabetes, patients will be given free access to what the company calls a "gold standard" diagnostic test to confirm the results.
Health care professionals can refer patients to the best options for diagnostic imaging covered by Medicare to give more people the medical assistance they need without extra financial stress.
Through the collaboration, members of the health plan, which is owned by Banner Health and insurer Aetna, will have access to 98point6's on-demand, text-based primary care offering.
The Medicare Advantage startup positioned the layoffs as a way to focus more on developing specific expertise in Medicare Advantage and healthcare.
With the new funding, MAP Health Management is hoping to more than double the states it operates in and move upstream to other sites of care to help treat substance abuse before it worsens.
Roshan Navagamuwa has been promoted to the position of executive vice president and chief information officer of CVS Health where he will be tasked with leading technology operations for the combined company.
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As part of the acquisition, the health system is bringing on Lumedic's employees and IP assets to form a new company that will work to sign up partnerships with other healthcare stakeholders like payer organizations.
On an earnings call, Cigna CEO David Cordani seemed largely nonplussed about the potential rule's impact on the company's bottom line, even after the insurer's blockbuster acquisition of Express Scripts.
Dubbed Attain, the application allows users to set personalized goals, track activity levels and recommend healthy behaviors and actions.
The new funding, led by by existing investor Greenoaks Capital, is simply the latest in a number of monster investments in insuretech companies looking to broach Medicare Advantage.
Even as the hype around cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have died down, major players are investing in applications to bring blockchain to healthcare.