Aetna News

Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced the appointment of Margaret (Meg) McCarthy, 51, as senior vice president and chief information officer, reporting to Aetna President Ronald A. Williams. McCarthy has been vice president for Aetna's Business Solutions Delivery since 2003 and replaces Wei-Tih Cheng, who retires at the end of this month. In this role, McCarthy will be responsible for Aetna Information Services, which includes approximately 3,000 employees who work in information technology archi...

Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today that John W. Rowe, M.D., Chairman and CEO of Aetna, is scheduled to make a presentation at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. 21st Annual Strategic Decisions Conference on June 2, 2005, in New York, NY. Aetna's presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. Eastern daylight time. Anyone listening to the Aetna presentation is encouraged to read Aetna's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of Aetna's historical results of oper...

A.M. Best Co. comments that it views favorably Aetna Inc.'s (Aetna) (NYSE:AET) (Hartford, CT) proposed $400 million acquisition of ActiveHealth Management. Owing to Aetna's excellent financial fundamentals and favorable forecast, all ratings remain unchanged. Transaction financing will not impact negatively Aetna's high quality balance sheet and earnings stream, the latter providing excellent debt service coverage.....We are unable to display this entire news item because this article's licen...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Aetna and PacAdvantage today announced good news for California small business's and their health insurance needs. As part of a significant expansion of PacAdvantage's PairedChoice product, Aetna PPO plans are being made available statewide for offering alongside HMO plans from Kaiser Permanente. With quoting currently available for groups with effective dates beginning July 1, 2005 or later, the addition of Aetna offers small employers and their employe...