Humana and CVS/pharmacy to Form Retail Partnership [Manufacturing Close – Up]

Humana and CVS/pharmacy announced a retail partnership designed to educate individuals and their families about their health care coverage options under the Affordable Care Act.

In a release, the Company noted that Humana representatives will be present at CVS/pharmacy's Project Health events. Humana will also be holding in-store events at CVS/pharmacy locations to educate individuals and their families about health care coverage options under the ACA.

_CVS/pharmacy's Project Health - Project Health is a CVS/ pharmacy wellness program designed to improve access to health care and deliver preventive services. Humana representatives will be present to answer questions about health coverage under ACA at 80 CVS/pharmacy Project Health weekly events in states such as Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas during the months of October and November.

_Health Coverage Information - Humana representatives will also be in more than 500 CVS/pharmacy stores located in 12 of the 14 states where Humana is offering individual health insurance as a Qualified Health Plan on Federal and state individual market public exchanges. Representatives will answer questions that individuals and their families may have about their health coverage options.

Representatives will be in CVS stores select Wednesdays, between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., throughout the six-month open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Marketplace.

"Humana's partnership with CVS/pharmacy reflects our proven and ongoing commitment to educate individuals and their families at the places they go when they have questions about their health," said Roy Beveridge, Humana's Chief Medical Officer. "We're working to ensure people develop a better understanding of how their health coverage can help them make better, and healthier, decisions."

"Providing information about new health insurance coverage opportunities is in keeping with our purpose of helping people on their path to better health," said Helena Foulkes, Executive Vice President and Chief Health Care Strategy and Marketing Officer for CVS Caremark. "We are pleased to combine our innovative suite of services and our new and existing relationships with organizations such as Humana to help patients understand and have access to information about insurance options in their community."

Humana and CVS/pharmacy will also provide educational brochures and other materials that will be available to individuals and their families.

CVS/pharmacy does not have stores in Utah and Colorado, where Humana is on exchange.

Humana Inc. is a provider of insurance products and health and wellness services.

CVS/pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Caremark Corp., is a retail pharmacy.

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