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CVS Caremark Facts

About CVS Caremark

CVS Caremark is the only fully integrated pharmacy health care company in the United States. Our offerings across the entire spectrum of pharmacy care allow us to provide greater convenience and choice for patients, improve health outcomes, and lower overall health care costs for plan sponsors and participants. As one of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), we provide plan sponsors and participants access to a network of approximately 60,000 pharmacies including 7,000 CVS/pharmacy stores.

We employ approximately 215,000 colleagues in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. At year-end (Dec. 2008), we operated 6,923 drugstores, 560 MinuteClinic locations, 58 retail specialty pharmacy stores, 19 specialty mail order pharmacies, six mail service pharmacies, and our CVS.com and Caremark.com websites.

Quick Facts

  • 215,000 Employees
  • Headquarters located in Woonsocket, R.I.
  • More than $87 billion in annual revenue
  • Ranked 19th on Fortune 500 for 2009
  • No. 1 provider of prescriptions in the nation – More than 1 billion prescriptions filled or managed annually
  • No. 1 Specialty Pharmacy
  • Largest employer of Pharmacists and Nurse Practitioners
  • No. 1 in Store Count – 7,000 CVS/pharmacy stores in 41 states (includes Longs Drugs in Hawaii)
  • 4+ million customers per day
  • No. 1 Retail Pharmacy Sales per square foot
  • No. 1 Retail Clinic Operator – 500+ MinuteClinic locations in 27 states
  • More than 2 million MinuteClinic patient visits to date
  • No. 1 Retail Loyalty Program – 50+ million active ExtraCare customers