TITLE

Aetna to cut medicare offerings

PUB. DATE
September 1998
SOURCE
Business Insurance;09/07/98, Vol. 32 Issue 36, p2
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the withdrawal from six states and parts of three others by Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc., from the medicare risk health maintenance organization (HMO) market. Reasons for the pull out by Aetna; Identification of the states which will lose Aetna coverage; When the withdrawal will take place.
ACCESSION #
1083252

Tags: AETNA US Healthcare Inc.

 

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