Obstetrics (Insurance)
Company Cuts Infertility Benefits
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 19th, 1998
Aetna U.S. Healthcare, a pioneer in covering infertility treatment, decided to make the change because it felt too many people were attracted to its plans only to take advantage of the coverage for the expensive treatment, The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reported on January 9, 1998.
"Women were enrolling in Aetna U.S. Healthcare, obtaining the benefit and leaving the program," Arnold Cohen, Aetna's corporate medical director for women's health, told the newspaper.
The decision is likely to intensify...
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