Aetna

Aetna is an American health insurance company and "worldwide commissioner of health management services".

ln the UK it offers help with commissioning, including data management and decision support, disease management, service design, quality improvement strategies, contracting, performance management, training, and education. It does not provide clinical services.

Aetna claims "relationships and contracts with 783000 healthcare professionals" in the US and 90 facilities in the UK.

=United States lobbying

Aetna's total lobbying expenditure in the US for 2010: $3,847,744. It also employs the following lobbying firms in the US:

• Avenue Solutions
• Ernst & Young
• Alston & Bird
• Akin, Gump et al