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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 type of health plan. Members can get care from any licensed doctor or hospital. They get the same level of benefits no matter who they see. There are no network. The plan pays a percentage of each covered health care service. These plans often have deductibles, coinsurance and certain benefit maximums. This is also called a “Traditional plan. ”
Industry:Health care
This is needed to help decide on a disability claim. A doctor examines the person in question. This doctor has not treated the person before.
Industry:Health care
This is a group of doctors or other health care providers. They contract with one or more health plans to provide services. If a member sees a primary doctor in this group, he or she will be referred to specialist and hospitals in the same group. Members can go outside the group if their medical needs cannot be handled by this group.
Industry:Health care
This is a health plan bought by a person who cannot get benefits through a group plan. Self-employed people often have to buy this type of plan. So do people who cannot get health benefits from their employer or other group.
Industry:Health care
This is an account you can use to save for retirement. You can put in a certain amount of money each year. This amount can be deducted from the taxable income you report. Contributions and interest are not taxed until money is taken out.
Industry:Health care
This is a type of treatment that goes into a vein. It includes medicine or feedings. It can also deliver nutrients into the stomach by tube.
Industry:Health care
This is the first part of a Medicare prescription drug plan. A member pays a set amount until the member and plan payments hit a certain total. Once this limit is reached, the terms change. Members may pay more as the plan moves to the “coverage gap” phase.
Industry:Health care
This period lasts seven months. It runs around the event that qualifies you for Medicare, for example, your 65th birthday. It lasts the three months before, the month of, and three months after the event.
Industry:Health care
This is a drug that can be put into the body with a needle or syringe. The medicine is put under the skin, into a muscle, or into a vein. It may start as a powder that is mixed with water.
Industry:Health care
