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Aetna, Inc.
Industry: Insurance
Number of terms: 2862
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
Aetna, Inc. is an American diversified health insurance company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical ...
This is a legal agreement. It is between a customer (an individual or group) and an insurance plan. It lists all details of the plan’s coverage.
Industry:Health care
This is a doctor who is trained to give care in a specific medical area. The doctor’s focus could be on a disease, part of the body or age group.
Industry:Health care
See “Consumerism.”
Industry:Health care
This is a legal term. It is a customer (an individual or group) who buys an insurance plan from an insurer.
Industry:Health care
This is treatment to fix something that is wrong with a person’s speech. The problem could have started from birth. But it could also have been from a disease, an earlier medical treatment or a time when the person got hurt.
Industry:Health care
This is an account set up to help members pay for health care costs. In some funds, money is put into the fund for them. In others, they can put money in on their own. Some funds do both. There are also plans with the Aetna Health Fund®.
Industry:Health care
This refers to a group health plan. It means costs are shared between an employer and its employees.
Industry:Health care
This is a type of HMO plan. Doctors who give care are employees of the HMO. This is different from an “ independent practice association (IPA)” HMO. In an IPA-model HMO, the doctors who give care are not employees of the HMO.
Industry:Health care
This is a company that provides health insurance plans.
Industry:Health care
This is an amount charged to change policies. It must be paid when you change a group health plan to an individual policy.
Industry:Health care