Aetna is one of the nation's leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability insurance and employee benefits. Dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security, Aetna puts information and helpful web-based resources to work for its members to allow for informed decisions about their health care and related treatments.

Drawing upon the vast strength of the company, Aetna offers more than 793,000 health care professionals, 462,000 primary care doctors and 4,716 hospitals and medical facilities across the United States.

Aetna offers programs and services that help control rising employee benefit costs for business owners while striving to improve the quality of health care. Proactive programs offered by Aetna include disease management and patient safety programs; integrated medical, dental, pharmaceutical, behavioral health and disability information and benefit coordination.

Providing members convenient tools and easy-to-understand information,  Aetna hopes  that  medical education will lead to patients who can identify signals that healthcare is needed and seek early treatment.