Tenet and Aetna Sign New Multi-Year Agreement

Tenet Healthcare Corporation THC and Aetna AET announced today that they have signed a new multi-year agreement. Under this agreement, which took effect January 1, 2011, members of Aetna commercial and Medicare Advantage health plans will be able to continue receiving covered health care services from Tenet facilities and physicians. The agreement includes all of Tenet's 49 hospitals as well as Tenet's 81 freestanding diagnostic imaging centers and ambulatory surgery centers nationwide. Tenet Physicians, Inc., which contracts for nearly 500 physicians employed by various Tenet subsidiaries, also is part of the agreement. The physicians represented by Tenet Physicians Inc. include traditional primary care specialties, as well as medical and surgical specialties.