Aetna Signs Contract with Baptist Health Services.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- 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. ) announced today that it has signed a three-year agreement with Baptist Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract Group that renews the company's relationship with 38 Baptist Health Services Group hospitals in Tennessee List of hospitals in Tennessee (U.S. state), sorted by hospital name.
Under the agreement, which takes effect Jan. 1, members of Aetna's managed care plans in those areas will be able to continue receiving covered services covered services, n.pl the services for which payment is provided under the terms of the dental benefits contract. Coxiella burnetii a species that causes Q fever in man. , at in-network rates, at those hospitals.. "We're very happy to extend our long-standing relationship with the Baptist Health Services hospitals," said Tom Golias, Aetna's head of network operations for Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. "Baptist has been a valued network partner of Aetna for more than 20 years, and our members have come to rely on Baptist hospitals and physicians for a wide range of in-patient in·pa·tient or in-pa·tient n. A patient who is admitted to a hospital or clinic for treatment that requires at least one overnight stay. and out-patient care." Aetna provides health benefits to nearly 300,000 members in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. Those members have access to networks totaling 49 hospitals, 968 primary care physicians and 1,734 specialists. "We are pleased to renew our relationship with Aetna," said David Elliott, chief executive officer of Baptist Health Services Group. "Maintaining affiliations with companies like Aetna is just one way we strive to deliver covered lives to our providers." Baptist Health Services Group is an award-winning nationally recognized health care system with 43 hospitals in five states. The network provides a panel of hospitals and 2,500 physicians from a wide variety of specialties to 362,000 covered lives in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. For more information, visit www.bhsg.org. As one of the nation's leading providers of health care, dental, pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. , group life, disability and long-term care long-term care (LTC), n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders. benefits, Aetna puts information and helpful resources to work for its approximately 13.6 million medical members, 11.6 million dental members, 8.3 million pharmacy members and 13.3 million group insurance members to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and protect their finances against health-related risks. Aetna provides easy access to cost-effective health care through a nationwide network of more than 646,000 health care professionals, including over 385,000 primary care and specialist doctors and 3,908 hospitals. For more information, please visit www.aetna.com. (Figures as of September 30, 2004) |
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