CVS Health Corporation — Ethics Grade C

CVS Health Corporation receives an overall ethics grade of C (46/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Healthcare / Retail. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 45
• privacy: 50
• consumer: 30
• environment: 50
• humanRights: 55

Documented incidents (2)

• Opioid crisis settlement (high, 2022) — Agreed to pay $5B to settle claims of fueling the opioid crisis by filling suspicious prescriptions at its pharmacies.
• PBM pricing opacity (medium, 2023) — FTC investigation into Caremark PBM practices that steer patients to CVS pharmacies and inflate drug costs.

Documented good deeds

• Stopped selling tobacco — First major pharmacy chain to stop selling tobacco products, sacrificing $2B in annual revenue.