About Aetna

Aetna believes they can help create a better health care system. This belief drives Aetna's daily decisions as one of the nation's leading health care benefits companies. Aetna works hard to provide their members with information and resources to help them make informed decisions about their health.

Aetna's mission

Aetna helps people achieve health and financial security by providing easy access to cost-effective, high-quality health care. And they continue to be a leader in building a stronger, more effective health care system by working with doctors, hospitals, employers, patients, public officials and others.

Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. Aetna's customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates.

Aetna facts

Aetna Inc.

Aetna (NYSE: ΑET) is one of the nation's leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, and disability insurance, and employee benefits. Dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security, Aetna puts information and helpful resources to work for its members to help them make better-informed decisions about their health care. (as of March 31, 2011)

Membership:

17.794 million medical members
13.489 million dental members
8.565 million pharmacy members

Health care networks:

More than 1 million health care professionals
More than 563,000 primary care doctors and specialists
More than 5,300 hospitals
A network of specialist physicians

Products and programs:

Aetna offers a broad range of insurance and employee benefits products.
The first national, full-service health insurer to offer a consumer-directed health plan, Aetna continues to lead the way with its Aetna HealthFund line of products, including HSA, HRA and RRA options.
Aetna offers a wide array of programs and services that help control rising employee benefits costs while striving to improve the quality of health care, such as case management; disease management and patient safety programs; integrated medical, dental, pharmaceutical, behavioral health and disability information.
Aetna provides members with access to convenient tools and easy-to-understand information that can help them make better-informed decisions about their health and financial wellbeing.

National presence:

Aetna provides benefits through employers in all 50 states, with products and services targeted specifically to small, mid-sized and large multi-site national employers.
Aetna also serves individuals and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in certain