‘The Patient Will See You Now’: Aetna’s CMO Explores Home Health Care’s Future

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is likely one of the most influential well being care entities within the United States. It having the medical insurance big Aetna beneath its umbrella isn’t any small a part of that. 

As a few of the bigger retailers within the U.S. have gotten additional into home-based care – together with Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and others – insiders have particularly stored their eye on CVS due to Aetna.

On its personal, CVS has flirted with the thought of Medicare-based home health acquisitions. Taking a zoomed-out view paints a bigger and grander technique, nonetheless, the place Aetna and CVS’ visions mix.

“We are diversifying our growth portfolio with new health services,” CVS Health President and CEO Karen Lynch said in May. “We are expanding our capabilities in home health as we prepare for the 2023 launch of a post-acute transitions pilot for our Aetna membership in select geographies.”

Also in May, Aman Gill – the director of product technique and innovation at Aetna – told Home Health Care News that home health acquisitions were “on the table.”

In order to flesh issues out additional, HHCN sat down just lately with Dr. Kyu Rhee – Aetna’s chief medical officer – to debate Aetna’s technique and the place home-based care matches in.

Highlights of that dialog are under, edited for size and readability.