
Aetna
Aetna Overview
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Aetna has 1.3 star rating based on 190 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
11% of users would likely recommend Aetna to a friend or colleague.
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Pros: Bill pay, Insurance company i had before aetna, Price is low.
Cons: Constant run around no decision makers, Customer service, Difficulty with authorization.
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Aetna has 1.3 star rating based on 190 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
11% of users would likely recommend Aetna to a friend or colleague.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Bill pay, Insurance company i had before aetna, Price is low.
Cons: Constant run around no decision makers, Customer service, Difficulty with authorization.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Please make sure you understand very well the benefits of your plan before you choose a plan", "Avoid AETNA at all costs. bureaucratic nightmare of a company to deal with.", "Keep up with who you are taking money from, and you deserve it! That’s to much?", "DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO AETNA EVER.THEY DO NOT CARE", "Don't let some one talk you into something you didn't want it was probably a scam since atena wont call me back and this women wont call them to cancel ee need trump back im office we have an evil president that causing nothing but chaos in this country he wants everything and thr americans to act like him a evil *** so be aware of who you talk to this country went to *** and when you get done wrong like this it that shows me that they are Biden supporters trump people aren't like this didn't want and only to get hung up on it was probably a scam since really didn't want to begin withwant in the first place and Aetna hung up ok. Me".
Most users ask Aetna for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Exchange, Refund and Cancellation Policy and Billing Practices. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Verified ReviewerResolved: Check on if a claim has been paid
Still waiting.
- Always been awesome
Preferred solution: Explaination of why the Insurance Company did not pay this
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Verified Buyer |This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ
Verified Reviewer |My copayment is very high
Preferred solution: Price reduction
User's recommendation: Please make sure you understand very well the benefits of your plan before you choose a plan
Resolved: Need to pay my bill
Preferred solution: Information
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Verified ReviewerAppeal
AETNA CUSTOMER SERVICE TOLD ME I HAD CHIROPRACTIC COVERAGE. THIS WAS THEIR EMPLOYEE.
THEN TOLD ME I DIDN'T WHEN I ASKED ABOUT RECEIVING COPAYMENTS FOR MAY 4, 2023 TO OCTOBER 1, 2023. SECOND TIME I WAS TOLD TO SWITCH TO PPO FOR OCTOBER 1, 2023 TO DECEMBER 31, 2023 AND I WOULD HAVE COVERAGE WITH INSERVICE OR OUT OF SERVICE. I WAS JUST TOLD WHEN I CALLED THAT MY APPEAL WAS DENIED WHEN IT WAS THEIR FAULT. I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND OR TAKE AETNA AGAIN.
THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS. I HAVE PAID OVER $2400.
OUT OF MY POCKET. DR HORN AND DR TREY HAVE BOTH HELPED ME WALK AGAIN AND CONTINUE TO BE PAIN FREE.
- Do not help their subscribers
Preferred solution: Part of a payment for CHIROPRACTOR
User's recommendation: DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO AETNA EVER..THEY DO NOT CARE
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Verified ReviewerResolved: Reimbursement taking over 21 days
Company fixed the issue and I have been provided with apology. Deposit made to our account. Aetna didn't contact us after we complained it was taking so long.
My RX policy cancelled just fine. Well Aetna did not and I was billed in January causing a major problem in my bank account. When I called in to Aetna they told me it would take at least 21 days for the refund. I have never heard of such a long waiting period for a refund.
I the mean time my account was so messed up it cost me extra fees and problems with other bills. I am disabled and live on a fixed income, It has now been 12 days since my phone call and still no refund...come Aetna I need my money back.
Preferred solution: Full refund
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Verified ReviewerSurgery denied why
- Good service
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Verified Reviewer |You have been taking money out of my account for l don’t know how all. Read my last message. My bank can’t stop it because “YOU “ have my rounting number. So l don’t know who or anyone else to get it
User's recommendation: Keep up with who you are taking money from, and you deserve it! That’s to much?
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Verified Reviewer |AETNA DISQUALIFIES VALID HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIMS FOR TOTALLY INVALID REASONS
Recently, we Connecticut retirees had our health insurance switched over to AETNA INSURANCE, a Hartford giant insurer, and we were assured that our benefits would be as good as those with the prior health insurer -- WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE TOTALLY UNTRUE! Actually, AETNA INSURANCE uses a disqualifier to reject totally valid claims for totally improper and specious reasons -- including many claims that our prior insurer, United Healthcare, would have readily and properly approved!
As but one example of AETNA INSURANCE errors, blunders, and improper claim denials: we were told that an MRI SCAN needed to resolve some arm and leg painful problems required six months of prior treatment in order to be approved -- when the whole purpose of the scan was to determine what type of treatment was needed! TALK ABOUT PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE -- AETNA INSURANCE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF ITS WRONGFUL DENIALS -- BEWARE THIS UNTRUSTWORTHY INSURER!
- Some claims are honored
- So aetna can save money
- Many valid claims are not honored
Preferred solution: DEMAND THAT AETNA INSURANCE HONOR VALID HEALTH CLAIMS, AND IF THEY DO NOT, THEN DEMAND THAT THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT AUDIT THE FIRM AT AETNA COST TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF SUCH ABUSE!
User's recommendation: AVOID AETNA HEALTH INSURANCE -- COMPLAIN TO CONNECTICUT REGULATORS ABOUT ANY PROBLEMS!
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Verified ReviewerTo cancel a plan I did not sigh up for
Preferred solution: I just don't want antea
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Verified ReviewerDenied Appeal for Cervical Spine Surgery
I have very little mobility of my neck due to a herniated disk between C5 and C6 and stenosis of my spinal cord.
Aetna's pre-certification team has wrongly denied my surgeon's request for surgery. They claim that I do not have at least 6 weeks of conventional PT.
Yet, I did have this amount of PT at my chiropractor's office. They claim that chiropractic documentation is not sufficient, yet only 5 percent of my session was spent talking to the chiropractor, while the remaining 95 percent of the session was spent in PT in their facility. Thus, Aetna is truly playing with words here. They are prolonging my pain and ill-health, and they should be brought to court.
They have no shame and do not care about the wellness of the people who pay their premiums each month. They are just racketeers who juice us of money, and do not help when it is medically necessary and when one needs it.
Preferred solution: Acceptance of Appeal for Cervical Spine Surgery
I'm trying to get a medical assistant to my hand
Preferred solution: I’m trying to find a provider where you guys cover hospital or clinic
Someone in your company that answered my first call on the 3rd didn't know what they was doing and because of that I'm out real money.
User's recommendation: Stay where you're at.
Insurance Expert Talks
Denied pre-authorization
User's recommendation: Avoid AETNA at all costs.. bureaucratic nightmare of a company to deal with..
Prescription just dropped from formulatory List
Out of nowhere, NO PRIOR NOTICE, Aetna dropped my Dulera Inhaler for asthma as my pharmacy called to let me know that I couldn't get it refilled! Now I'm told, after trying for over 2 horus to even get a rep on the phone, that the doctor needs to fill out a prior authorization then send it to Aetna, who will decide in 70+ business hours if they will accept or decline all in the mantime, i don't get to breath!!!
This takes place after raising their rates almost $200 per monthe more!.
I pay for an individual gold member over $16,500.00 per year now and Aetna cancels my prescription to force me to take a generic version so they can manke MORE MONEY! I am definitley leaving Aetna as they are HORRIBLE!
User's recommendation: I recimmned that you NEVER use Aetna!!!

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Verified ReviewerI am trying to pay my premium to start my coverage the assistance is horrible
- Reasonable premium for individual
Preferred solution: Price reduction
User's recommendation: Find a different Insurance Company if possible...Or Good Luck
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The doctor treating your herniated disc has to be the one to give you a PT referral. The PT notes and billing must be detailed for the insurance company to accept them.
That's practically absurd. If I have a herniated disc, what is the issue with my pursuing help myself?
If the surgeon needs to prescribe PT, then there should be no need for a pre-certification, since PT is a requisite component of an approval.
Aetna is just a corrupt organization that frustrates the genuine efforts of its paying customers. For you not to see this means you are as bad as they are.
The fact that you need surgery, and I believe you do, was lost on the chiropractor and PT you went to on your own. The reason their care has to be coordinated by the doctor is so a detailed assessment can be written. Their treatment is based on the doctor’s diagnosis and their goal is to treat your condition or assert further treatment will not cure the condition.