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CVS Pushes Out Former Aetna Chief as It Shrinks Board

  • Bertolini won’t be renominated as director of health giant
  • CVS says with deal closed it was ‘right time’ to part ways

A sign outside a CVS Health Corp. store in Chicago

Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg
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The former chief executive officer of Aetna said he was pushed off the board of CVS Health Corp., which bought the health insurer in a $68 billion deal a year and a half ago.

Mark Bertolini said he had offered to remain on CVS’s board past his current term, but that he wasn’t renominated. Known as a highly visible and outspoken executive, he steered Aetna from 2010 until he sold it to CVS in 2018.