- Industry: Insurance
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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 plan helps you control more of your health benefit dollars. It includes a fund or account that can be used to pay for your medical expenses. Most health funds allow unused dollars to be rolled over from year to year, for as long as you stay in the plan. Some plans allow the fund to go with you, even if you change jobs.
Industry:Health care
This is for people with a Medicare plan. It is a time when they can change their benefits because something in their life changes. Examples are moving out of a plan service area, or being able to get Medicaid. If nothing in their life changed, they must wait for an enrollment period.
Industry:Health care
Some health plans let members see a participating provider without a referral. In other words, they give “open access.” This might be called direct access.
Industry:Health care
This is a term for a new movement in health care. Its goal is to have everyone more involved in their own care. This means people will have more information to make better decisions about their health care. It includes knowing the real costs of health care and taking an active role in managing those costs.
Industry:Health care
This is a Medicare Advantage HMO or PPO plan. It is for smaller groups of people who get Medicare. There are three types of these plans. The first type is for those who receive both Medicare and state Medicaid. The second type is for those who live in a long-term care home. The third type is for those with a condition that is disabling.
Industry:Health care
Some prescription benefits plans cover all eligible prescription drugs. This means they have an “open formulary.” In these plans, people might have lower copays for drugs on the preferred drug list. They might have higher copays for drugs that are not on this list.
Industry:Health care
This is a legal agreement. It is between a customer (an individual or group) and an insurance plan. It lists all details of the plan’s coverage.
Industry:Health care
This is a doctor who is trained to give care in a specific medical area. The doctor’s focus could be on a disease, part of the body or age group.
Industry:Health care
This is a legal term. It is a customer (an individual or group) who buys an insurance plan from an insurer.
Industry:Health care
This is treatment to fix something that is wrong with a person’s speech. The problem could have started from birth. But it could also have been from a disease, an earlier medical treatment or a time when the person got hurt.
Industry:Health care
