CVS Health announced several leadership updates, effective immediately. Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and interim CFO, Tom Cowhey, has been formally appointed the company's next CFO. CVS Health announced on October 13, 2023 the interim appointments, and that Shawn Guertin would be taking a leave of absence.

Guertin will be stepping down from his roles due to family health reasons and will remain on personal leave and will leave the company on May 31, 2024. Cowhey joined CVS Health in February of 2022. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Surgery Partners Inc., and before that spent more than a decade at Aetna in various strategy and finance roles.

Since joining CVS Health, he has overseen investor relations, corporate development, treasury, and finance operations, working closely with Lynch and the Executive Leadership Team to manage the company's overall financial strategy.