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Article: Patients scramble after doctors: Practices' decision to drop Aetna limits choices for insured
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- May 6, 1999
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Pam Miller spent weeks on a quest for a new doctor.
Since she learned her physician dropped his ties to Aetna U.S.
Healthcare, she's been on the phone, questioning whether other
physicians will take her insurance.
Many of them have informed Miller they also will no longer
participate with Aetna.
Aetna recently reduced payments for certain procedures, many
performed by specialists, because several Kanawha Valley companies
are trying to contain high insurance costs to compete in the market.
They include Union Carbide, where Miller's husband works, Columbia
Natural Gas, American Electric Power, McJunkin and others.
"You develop a relationship, a trust," Miller said about Dr. David
Thomas, the ...