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Aetna Inc. (/ ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET-nə) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare.
PPO. The Preferred Provider Organization plan is the most popular for those with employment-based insurance (currently 47% of them, in fact). PPOs allow the most flexibility in that people can ...
The company was founded in 1986 in Nashville by Phil Bredesen. [3]In August 1998, the company merged with Principal Health Care and moved its headquarters to Bethesda, Maryland.
[4] [5] This new health care model was built around a network of participating providers and was a precursor to today's preferred provider organization (PPO). [5] [6] In order to expand its presence in the upstate New York market, GHI established GHI HMO as an incorporated entity in May 1999. [5]
In U.S. health insurance, a preferred provider organization (PPO), sometimes referred to as a participating provider organization or preferred provider option, is a managed care organization of medical doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who have agreed with an insurer or a third-party administrator to provide health care at ...
Founded in 1948, [26] Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield (ABCBS) [27] is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and the largest healthcare provider in the state. [28] It donated $1.98 million to The Walton College of Business toward founding its Robert L. Shoptaw Master of Healthcare Business Analytics Program. [29]
If the PPO plan is an 80% coinsurance plan with a $1,000 deductible, the patient pays 100% of the allowed provider fee up to $1,000. The insurer will pay 80% of the other fees, and the patient will pay the remaining 20%.
A health insurance policy is a insurance contract between an insurance provider (e.g. an insurance company or a government) and an individual or his/her sponsor (that is an employer or a community organization).