Aetna Adds UC Davis Medical Group to HMO Network in Central Valley.Addition of UC Davis doctors and Medical Center expands access for Aetna HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, members in the Central Valley WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif. -- Aetna (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AET AET Aetna, Inc. AET After Extra Time AET Actual Evapotranspiration AET Alliance for Environmental Technology AET Alpha-Ethyltryptamine AET Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. ) today announced that the UC Davis Medical Group will become a participating provider in Aetna's Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) network in the Central Valley effective Nov. 1, 2007. Aetna members in its HMO, Aetna Open Access([R]) and Quality Point of Service([R]) (QPOS QPOS Quiznos Point Of Sales System ([R])) plans will be able to select a primary care physician (PCP PCP abbr. 1. phencyclidine 2. primary care physician Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) ) affiliated with the UC Davis Medical Group, and will be able to access services at UC Davis Medical Center The UC Davis Medical Center is a major research hospital located in Sacramento, California and is the primary teaching hospital of UC Davis School of Medicine. Researchers and specialists at the 577 licensed bed medical center work in over 150 areas of specialty. . "Aetna's members with HMO-based health plans in the Sacramento area now have additional choices of physicians and enhanced access to quality health care services," said Gerald Bishop, M.D., Aetna senior medical director for its Central Valley market. "UC Davis Medical Group has been a long-standing participant in Aetna's traditional network, and we are pleased that our HMO members now have the same access to UC Davis Medical Center and its affiliated physicians." More than 150 primary care physicians and 450 specialist physicians are affiliated with UC Davis Medical Group, located throughout the community and on the UC Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento. "We are happy to welcome all of Aetna's patients into the UC Davis Medical Group, including those who are in the HMO plan," said Nabil Musallam, senior associate director for hospital and clinics at UC Davis Health System. "They'll find terrific primary care physicians and also enjoy the collective expertise of health-care professionals throughout our entire health system." Aetna has 5,878 participating physicians and 67 participating hospitals in its Central Valley network, and 90,944 physicians and 552 hospitals participating statewide. About UC Davis Health System UC Davis Health System encompasses a school of medicine, an academic medical center, and the regional UC Davis Medical group. It also includes a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, a unique, interdisciplinary research center for the study and treatment of autism autism (ô`tĭzəm), developmental disability resulting from a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain. It is characterized by the abnormal development of communication skills, social skills, and reasoning. and other neurodevelopmental disorders called the M.I.N.D. Institute, and the UC Davis Children's Hospital. Research strengths include clinical and translational science, regenerative medicine, infectious disease Infectious disease A pathological condition spread among biological species. Infectious diseases, although varied in their effects, are always associated with viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites and aberrant proteins known as prions. , vascular biology, neuroscience and nutrition, among many others. For more information, visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu. About Aetna Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 36.4 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, government-sponsored plans and expatriates. www.aetna.com |
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