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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.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, also known as BCBS, BCBSA, or The Blues, is a United States–based federation with 33 independent and locally operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance to more than 115 million people in the U.S. as of 2022.
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.
In 2015, she became the first female president of Aetna. She has held executive positions at Magellan Health Services and Cigna. In 2021, she became the highest-ranking female chief executive on the Fortune 500 list. [2] She is a member of the President's Export Council, The Business Council, and the Business Roundtable. [3] [4]
In 1993, Humana founded Humana Military Healthcare Services (HMHS) as a wholly owned subsidiary. [5] They were awarded their first TRICARE contract in 1995, and began serving military beneficiaries in 1996. [32] From 2004 to 2009, HMHS was the managed care contractor for the Department of Defense Military Health System TRICARE South Region.
Aetna Inc. 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.
This Optum-UnitedHealth model of vertical integration [20] is pointed to as having sparked a pattern of acquisition activity in the healthcare industry; most notably, mega-mergers between CVS-Aetna, Cigna-Express Scripts and Humana-Kindred. [21] "Optum's been the leader in showing how a managed care organization with an ambulatory care delivery ...
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