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CVS names former UnitedHealth exec as head of Aetna

By The Wall Street Journal  
   November 06, 2024

CVS says a former top UnitedHealth Group executive, Steve Nelson will lead Aetna effective today. The health conglomerate is betting on an insurance-industry veteran from a company that investors have long favored to run the insurer, which has been at the heart of CVS's recent financial woes. Nelson was previously CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance arm, the industry's largest and the one with the biggest Medicare business. 

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