Aetna facts

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 December 31, 2009)

Membership:

• 18.914 million medical members
• 14.061 million dental members
• 11.013 million pharmacy members

• More than 952,000 health care professionals
• More than 539,000 primary care doctors and specialists
• More than 5,000 hospitals
• A network of specialist physicians, recognized with  Aexcel® designation, based on clinical performance and cost efficiency¹ 

• 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 HealthFund² 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.

• 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 markets.

• ActiveHealth Management 
• Aetna Capital Management 
• Aetna Student Health 
• Goodhealth Worldwide 
• Schaller Anderson 
• Strategic Resource Company 

¹Not available in all areas.
²Source: Aetna. Consumer-directed health plans using Aetna HealthFund® were first introduced by Aetna on September 19, 2001.