Article - June 16, 2008 - American Medical News

Aetna vows to continue settlement terms
The plan releases a list of commitments it is making to physicians.

By Emily Berry

Aetna executives are promising not to abandon the changes the insurer made over the past five years as conditions of a class action lawsuit settlement in a case involving several health plans. Organized medicine is saying it will watch the company closely to make sure that promise is kept.

On May 28, Aetna issued a list of commitments it said it would make as of June 2, when its five-year settlement with physicians and multiple medical societies expired. Aetna was one of numerous plans that settled lawsuits accusing them of developing schemes to underpay doctors, though the plans did not admit wrongdoing.

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