100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2021

Lynch leads a company that serves 100 million consumers annually via a network of pharmacies, MinuteClinic and HealthHUB locations. CVS claims to have administered more than 32 million COVID-19 tests and 34 million COVID-19 vaccines. Lynch’s 25-year career in healthcare includes stints as executive vice president of CVS Health, president of Aetna, and president of Magellan Health Services. She also held executive positions at Cigna, having launched her career with Ernst & Young as a certified public accountant.

Lynch speaks: “We really believe that we need to kind of push into primary care so we can influence the overall cost of care. And by doing that, we think that we can have better engagement, help customers better navigate and obviously have higher quality, lower cost of care."