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Aetna
/ ˈɛtnə /
Example Sentences
However, an analysis by KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News, found that “many insurers are increasing premiums” and that large insurers, including UnitedHealthcare and Aetna, also reduced the number of plans they offer.
CVS and Aetna made the same claim when they announced their merger in 2017.
The three largest PBMs are owned by insurers and retail pharmacy chains, and about 80% of prescription drug sales in the United States are controlled by them: OptumRx, owned by UnitedHealth Group; CVS Caremark, owned by CVS Health, which also owns the insurer Aetna; and Express Scripts, owned by the Cigna Group.
CVS stands on slightly more solid ground, said Raymond James healthcare analyst John Ransom, because it owns insurance company Aetna, as well as Caremark, the pharmacy benefit manager.
Mr. Donaldson also served briefly as an under secretary of state under Henry A. Kissinger, headed the New York Stock Exchange and was chief executive of the insurer Aetna Inc.
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