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Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
Aetna Advantage plans provide dental benefits through either the Aetna network or direct member reimbursement (DMR). This online tool can help a person find providers that accept their Advantage plan.
Aetna is a healthcare benefits company that CVS Health acquired in 2018. It serves around 39 million people.. According to Aetna’s website, 88% of its Medicare Advantage members are enrolled ...
Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review , nursing peer review ).
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.
Lee Whitman, attorney for Aetna, countered that according to Segal, which looked at how providers were used, 99% of Aetna’s claims would have been paid in-network. “That 1% disruption is ...
Aetna, et al., a frustration succinctly summarized in his quote from a previous decision in "Andrews-Clarke v. Travelers Ins. Co.," (a Complaint by a widow for the death of her husband as a consequence of a Managed Care Utilization review decision that cut short her husband's physician's recommended in-hospital treatment plan) as follows:
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