Business Wire

Aetna Supports Physicians, Pharmacists, Members in H1N1 Flu Response

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aetna (NYSE:AET) is providing free electronic roster billing for pharmacies and other non-traditional providers to use when submitting claims for the administration ...
Fierce Healthcare

Aetna and ProHealth Physicians Provider Collaboration Model Leads to Fewer Hospitalizations for Certain Patients

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As groups throughout the health care system work to develop Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced results of a collaborative ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Aetna, newborn physician firms embroiled in legal battle over payments

Health insurer Aetna and Pediatrix Medical Services, a Sunrise, Fla.-based provider of pediatric services, are caught up in a legal battle over each other’s billing practices. On April 20, Pediatrix ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Aetna contacts 931 physicians prescribing the most opioids

Aetna analyzed 8.6 million insurance claims to identify and notify physicians prescribing the highest amount of opioids, The Washington Post reported. Last week, the Hartford, Conn.-based insurer sent ...
Fierce Healthcare

Aetna Introduces Multi-Physician Group Accountable Care Collaboration in Colorado

Aetna (NYSE: ) today announced an accountable care collaboration with Banner Network Colorado, Colorado Health Neighborhoods, New West Physicians and Physician Health Partners, along with the ...
Business Wire

Aetna Program Has Helped Physicians over 350,000 Times; MedQuery Program Finds Care Improvement Opportunities Not Likely to Be Discovered From Paper Medical Records

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2005--Aetna's (NYSE:AET) national MedQuery(SM) program has detected over 350,000 opportunities to improve clinical quality and patient safety. Through the ...
Chicago Tribune

Aetna changes its methods for ranking physicians

In rare praise for the health insurance industry, the American Medical Association is commending Aetna Inc. for the managed-care giant’s decision to change its doctor-ranking programs nationally. The ...
Modern Healthcare

Doctor who sued Aetna now an advisor

H. Robert Harrison, M.D., an Atlanta pediatrician who sued Aetna five years ago, now finds himself on an advisory committee keeping the Hartford, Conn.-based insurer abreast of problems faced by ...
NJBIZ

Physicians associations sue Aetna, Cigna on out-of-network payments

The physicians associations accused Cigna and Aetna of “using unreliable data to determine payments of usual and customary fees for physician services.”The Medical Society of New Jersey, in ...
Los Angeles Times

California physicians sue Aetna over out-of-network referrals

The California Medical Assn., the largest physician group in the state, and more than 60 individual doctors sued health insurance giant Aetna Inc. as part of a growing legal battle over what patients ...
The Business Journals

Physicians settle with Aetna

Aetna (NYSE: AET) and representatives of more than 700,000 physicians, state and other medical societies said they received final judicial approval of a settlement agreement in a national class action ...
Computerworld

Aetna electronically alerts physicians about care needs

Consumers have long been signing up to be electronically alerted when their airline flights are delayed or their bank accounts dip too low. So it may seem perplexing that a major health insurance ...