CVS Health (CVS) earnings Q2 2024

CVS Health (CVS) earnings Q2 2024

The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on Feb. 7, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images CVS Health on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings that topped expectations, but slashed its full-year profit outlook, citing higher medical costs that have been squeezing … Read more

Why pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS are shuttering locations

Why pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS are shuttering locations

In its fiscal third-quarter earnings report to investors in late June, pharmacy chain Walgreens announced plans to close a “significant” number of its 8,600 U.S. stores. CEO Tim Wentworth said only 75% of the chain’s locations were making a profit, and that the other one-quarter of them faced the chopping block by 2027. This was … Read more

Lawmakers unveil PBM reform bill amid rising drug costs

Lawmakers unveil PBM reform bill amid rising drug costs

Feverpitched | Getty Images Bipartisan lawmakers introduced a new bill on Tuesday that aims to crack down on the business practices of drug supply chain middlemen who are widely accused of inflating prescription medication prices and harming U.S. patients and pharmacies. The legislation aims to ensure community pharmacies can provide care to patients enrolled in … Read more

FTC to sue PBMs over drug prices including insulin

FTC to sue PBMs over drug prices including insulin

FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing titled “Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Federal Trade Commission,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission is planning to sue three large U.S. … Read more

Brain implant Paradromics launches patient registry

Brain implant Paradromics launches patient registry

Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Aamir Ahmed Khan, PhD, Principal Electrical Engineer for Paradromics, works on the Transceiver which connects to the brain implants.  Austin based Paradromics is developing a brain-computer interface to aide disabled and non-verbal patients with communication.  Julia Robinson … Read more

Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini set to take on employer market

Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini set to take on employer market

Mark Bertolini has helped Oscar Health move toward profitability after taking over as CEO of the health insurer a year ago. Now, he says the company’s next phase of growth and profitability will focus on tapping into the employer market. That effort will include “going after the 71 million lives that are in small group … Read more

Two CVS pharmacies join new national pharmacy union

Two CVS pharmacies join new national pharmacy union

The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 7, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Pharmacy staff at two CVS retail stores in Rhode Island voted to join a new national pharmacy union on Friday, signaling growing momentum in … Read more

Organized theft ring that targeted Macy’s charged in NYC

Organized theft ring that targeted Macy’s charged in NYC

The Macy’s company logo is seen at the Macy’s store on Herald Square on January 19, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images A New York beauty store just blocks away from the Empire State Building resold more than $1 million worth of goods that’d been stolen from Macy’s and a … Read more

Humira sales are falling, but AbbVie has successors

Humira sales are falling, but AbbVie has successors

Humira, the injectable rheumatoid arthritis treatment is pictured in a pharmacy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. JB Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! Sales of AbbVie‘s Humira are plummeting as the once-top-selling drug fights competition from cheaper … Read more

CVS Health (CVS) earnings Q1 2024

CVS Health (CVS) earnings Q1 2024

A person walks by a CVS Pharmacy store in Manhattan, New York, on Nov. 15, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters CVS Health on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that missed expectations and slashed its full-year profit outlook, citing higher medical costs that are dogging the U.S. insurance industry. Shares of the company dropped … Read more