--- description: Find out why CVS Health was selected for the list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023: CVS Health image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt491aa0eeb295a1d1/698a3dc4011682cf609831ff/time100-companies-CVS-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 21, 2023 # CVS Health Health care giant by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/) ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.  A CVS pharmacy in Manhattan. A CVS pharmacy in Manhattan.Jeenah Moon—The New York Times/Redux “Health care is broken,” says CVS Health’s chief medical officer Dr. Sree Chaguturu—and his company wants to put it back together. Over the past year, the drugstore chain, led by CEO Karen Lynch, has dropped close to $20 billion on acquisitions of Oak Street Health, a senior-focused primary-­care network, and Signify Health, a home-health-care provider. Between those deals, its 2018 acquisition of health insurer Aetna, and the continued expansion of the Minute­Clinic walk-in-care brand, which now operates in more than 1,100 locations nationwide, CVS has cemented its role as a player in nearly every aspect of [U.S. health care](https://time.com/6281957/american-health-care-is-broken-major-hospitals-solution/ "undefined"). --- ### More from TIME --- _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285199/cvs-health/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285199/cvs-health/"},"headline":"CVS Health","datePublished":"2023-06-21T10:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:16:03.541Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285199/cvs-health/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt491aa0eeb295a1d1/698a3dc4011682cf609831ff/time100-companies-CVS-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"creator":"Jamie Ducharme","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt491aa0eeb295a1d1/698a3dc4011682cf609831ff/time100-companies-CVS-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285199/cvs-health/","name":"CVS Health"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 Most Influential Companies: Major League Baseball","description":"Find out why Major League Baseball was selected for the list","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/exo2aGkm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-06-21T11:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/exo2aGkm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285199/cvs-health/","duration":"PT3M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285199/cvs-health/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```