Aetna U.S. Healthcare Ends Pact With Pa. Hospital, Health Network.Aetna U.S. Healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. and the Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Hospital Lehigh Valley Hospital is a network of three hospitals in Allentown and Bethlehem, serving as the primary hospital system for the Lehigh Valley, in Pennsylvania, United States. The network consists of three hospitals and six health centers. and Health Network have ended their five-year contract. "We notified Aetna U.S. Healthcare last July that we could not, as a not-for-profit organization, subsidize a for-profit corporation A for-profit corporation is a corporation that is intended to operate a business which will return a profit to the owners. A for-profit corporation, depending on the jurisdiction to which it is incorporated, may be operated either as a stock corporation or as a non-stock like Aetna," said Brian Downs, a spokesman for the hospital. "Unfortunately our negotiations with Aetna were not successful." The hospital cared for about 4,000 Aetna patients last year, Downs said. |
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