Aetna

Aetna is one of the American leaders in the health insurance industry. The company provides a broad range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and services. Their line of commodities includes medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical management capabilities.

Aetna, a Fortune 100 company, is dedicated to helping people obtain health and financial security by offering health care, pharmacy, dental, group life, long-term care insurance and employee benefits through employer-paid insurance and benefit programs and through Medicare. Its services reach a consumer network of 18.9 million medical members, 14 million dental members and 11 million pharmacy members, while utilizing an extensive network of more than 952,000 health care professionals, 539,000 primary care doctors and specialists and 5,000 hospitals to provide its benefits across its members. As of 2008, it has a reported 35,258 members in its workforce. Aetna’s widespread presence targets small, mid-sized and large multi-site employers and reaches all 50 of the states in the U.S.

Aetna has seen growth in its operations in recent years with increasing trends in revenues, from $1.1 billion in 2005 to $27.6 billion in 2007, and finally to $31 billion in 2008.