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| Traded as | : AET S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Managed health care |
| Founded | May 28, 1853 (as Aetna Life Insurance Company) |
| Founder | Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley |
| Headquarters | 151 Farmington Ave, Hartford, Connecticut, 06105 U.S. |
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United States |
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Key people
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Mark T. Bertolini (Chairman and CEO) Karen S. Lynch (President) |
| Products | Healthcare plans |
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Number of employees
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49,500 (FY 2016) |
| Website | www |
Aetna Inc. (/ˈɛtnə/; stylized as ætna) is an American managed health care company, which sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance plans and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans. Aetna is a member of the Fortune 500.
In June 2017, the company announced plans to move its headquarters to New York City in late 2018. On December 3, 2017, it was announced that CVS would purchase Aetna for an estimated $69 billion, a deal which the New York Times reported would "reshape the American health care industry."
Aetna offers health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability, and long-term care insurance and employee benefits, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare. Membership numbers: (as of September 30, 2016)
Aetna has spent more than $2.0 million in 2009 on lobbying. The company spent $809,793 between January 2009 and the end of March 2009—up 41 percent from the same period in 2008. Aetna's campaign contributions include more than $110,000 to US Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) in 2009. From 2005 through 2009, Aetna contributed $56,250 to Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, making Aetna the senator's seventh highest contributor over that time period.
In the California Health Care Quality Report Card 2011 Edition, Aetna received 2 out of 4 stars in Meeting National Standards of Care and 1 out of 4 in Members Rate Their HMO. In the California Health Care Quality Report Card 2010 Edition, Aetna received 3 out of 4 stars in both Meeting National Standards of Care and How Members Rate Their HMO, for a rating of "Good" (out of "Poor, " "Fair, " "Good, " or "Excellent").