Topic: Aetna Inc.

David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times has a horror story about Aetna, the large health insurance company. On September 30, Aetna sent her a letter saying her premium had gone up. (This is the letter supplied to the Los Angeles Times ...
Aetna Health Insurance services are provided by the Aetna Corporation founded in Hartford, Connecticut in the year 1850. The company's values have been focused on a social scale of medical assistance provisions to aid in the improvement of community health and wellness ...

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Featured Earning coverage Interactive graphic by Jennifer Wenger / amednews How much do health plans make? Aetna pushes suppliers to offer health coverage - July 26 ? Anthem, Aetna submit new rate requests in California - July 19 ? Health Net wins ...

Aetna misrepresented how it spent some premiums, senator says

An investigation into how insurance companies spend the money they receive from premiums each year has resulted in Aetna making a nearly $5 billion amendment to its 2008 health insurance regulatory filings, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, W. Va.), chair of the Senate ...
Clouds remain in the U.S. job market, but the sky has apparently stopped falling. This news, according to the Labor Department?s latest data, is bittersweet for hundreds of thousands of Americans who are still without full-time employment and running out of options ...

Earnings up for insurers

Health plans and their investors face a future less certain than at any time in recent memory, so talks with analysts in October about quarterly earnings focused less on the three months prior and more on the months and years ahead.. Humana ...
AS WHAT CARE reform moves closer to reality, the Obama administration and many members of Congress have found an easy target: Charles Boorady, a Citigroup analyst, favors Aetna and WellPoint, while Goldman Sachs' Matthew Borsch likes Cigna and UnitedHealth. Aetna, at a ...
Many people depend on their place of work to provide health insurance for them, recently the economy has worsened and as a result many people have found themselves unemployed and without health insurance. Some of these people are the main providers for ...

Aetna is speediest payer

The article reports on the third annual ranking of health insurers in the U.S. In terms of business dealings with doctors, the survey reveals that Aetna Life Insurance Co. topped among 137 national, regional and government payers. www.memag.coii I Medical Economics I ...
Aetna (AET) treated us to a surprise early Q2 conference call Monday morning. Aetna also cited suspicious medical service providers that were billing for multiple procedures for the same medical event. Aetna intends to rewrite provider agreements to eliminate payment for multiple ...