Aetna and Consult A Doctor™ Come Together As A 24/7 Telemedicine And Work Life Service

Aetna’s (NYSE: AET) work life platform Aetna Resources For Living has been combined with the Consult A Doctor™ 24/7 telemedicine service to provide employees with easier access to resources that help improve overall health, work/life balance and workplace productivity.

Providence Financial Group (PFG) teamed up with Aetna and Consult A Doctor to offer a bundled array of telemedicine and work life services to employers, agents and brokers throughout the U.S.

Miami, June 19, 2012— Aetna’s (NYSE: AET) work life platform Aetna Resources For Living has been combined with the Consult A Doctor™ 24/7 telemedicine service to provide employees with easier access to resources that help improve overall health, work/life balance and workplace productivity. Consult A Doctor Plus™ is a unique, on-demand solution that also allows employers to better manage health care costs by providing members with the help and support they need – where, when and how they need it.

Consult A Doctor Plus (CADR+) enables consumers to contact physicians, either by phone or email, for specific questions they may have. This product provides members with a variety of benefits, including:
•       Confidential 24/7 telephonic consultation and prescription-writing.
•       Access to Aetna Resources for Living work life resources and support.
•       Patient advocacy bill review/mediation, provided by The Karis Group.
•       Access to online wellness tools and health records.
•       Legal and financial consulting.

“We are pleased to work with Providence Financial Group to provide those in need with support and services in all areas of physical, emotional, psychological and social well-being,” said Louise Murphy, head of Aetna Behavioral Health. “Aetna Resources For Living is a suite of offerings designed to engage people in addressing lifestyle issues and workplace stresses by providing a comfortable and safe environment for our members. This platform together with Consult A Doctor creates a concrete combination of medical and work life services.”

Powered by TeleCare 3.0, Consult A Doctor provides customized versions of its telemedicine platform to meet the needs of all the major constituents in healthcare, including practices, hospitals, clinics, health plans and employers.

“With Consult A Doctor Plus, we are able to work hand-in-hand with Aetna to reach beyond traditional, primary care settings and explore new opportunities within the telemedicine spectrum of health care,” said Wolf Shlagman, founder and CEO, Consult A Doctor. “We are excited to provide employers with a faster, more convenient and affordable resource that gives members access to such services anytime and anywhere.”

Consult A Doctor Plus (CADR+) is offered through Providence Financial Group (www.pfgef.com), program administrator. For more information about the program visit www.CADRPlus.com  or email jhoekman@cadrplus.com  or call Jonathan Hoekman, CADR+ Program Manager, 805 704 8788.

About Providence Financial Group

Providence Financial Group (PFG) is a sales and marketing organization of industry-leading financial products and services, marketed primarily through contracted agents and brokers.
PFG is an authorized representative of both Aetna Behavioral Health and Consult A Doctor, and Reseller/Administrator of the Consult A Doctor Plus program. For more information please visit www.pfgef.com or contact us at www.pfgef.com/contact.

About Consult A Doctor

Consult A Doctor is the leading innovator of cloud-based telemedicine services and technology platform solutions empowering organizations to lower healthcare costs, provide revolutionary access and improve outcomes. With years of experience delivering direct-to-employer and consumer telemedicine services that offer convenient 24/7 access to doctor consultations by phone, email and video, Consult a Doctor has saved employers millions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs.  Its telemedicine network of U.S. board certified physicians in all 50 states has made it possible to give on-demand care, anytime, anywhere with access to care in the lowest cost setting. Consult A Doctor is further transforming the economic equation of care by partnering with payers, providers, health systems and other organizations to deploy TeleCare 3.0, its telemedicine services delivery platform that grants its members and patients unmatched access to quality care, offers a new revenue source for providers, and lowers costs for health plans, employers and groups. For more information about Consult A Doctor, please visit www.consultadr.com, email telecare@consultadr.com or call 888-688-DOCT (3628).

About Aetna

Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 36.1 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services and health information technology services. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com.

   

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