Many people are familiar with Aetna as a health insurance company and provider, but Aetna also offers insurance lines of coverage that cover group life insurance plans as well as employee benefits. Aetna line of insurance products are predominantly in the area of health, however, including plans for individuals as well as employer-provided insurance, college applicants, part-time or independent workers, government plans, traditional health coverage plans, and association plans such as those sponsored by labor unions or fraternal societies.

As a major player in the health care insurance market, the company typically appears in large scale negotiations with entities employing thousands upon thousands of workers. Combination plans offered by the company can address a full package of benefits for the workplace, enhancing job recruitment through benefits offered.

The company is present nationwide in all fifty states of the union, which makes it easy for customers to move around and still retain coverage when traveling or relocating. Aetna also provides some of the most accessible self-directed plans where individuals can take advantage of their federally-approved tax shelter health savings plans. While Aetna does market heavily to large organizations, it also serves and designed products for smaller organizations as well, especially medium-sized businesses operating in multiple locations. Finally, the company coordinates and works with both Medicaid and Medicare plans in many urban regional areas across the country.

Aetna has a number of subsidiaries operating underneath the main company, which include:

Strategic Resource Company
Schaller Anderson
Prodigy Health Group
Medicity
Aetna Student Health
Aetna Global Benefits
Aetna Capital Management
ActiveHealth Management

As noted before, most people will come across Aetna insurance policies as a plan offered in a workplace to employees. However, the company does provide policies to individuals as well through both brokers and agents and online.