Hartford health insurer Aetna Inc. has added another 21 days to the grace period for tornado victims in Joplin, Mo., to get out-of-network non-emergency care without paying higher fees.
Aetna members may now seek such care through June 21. The original time period was to end Wednesday.
Aetna also extended the time that affected customers have, interest free, to make payments that would have been due between May 22 and June 23 of this year. Those customers now have until June 30 to make those payments, the insurer said.
This time period also applies to customers submitting level I and level II appeals that are due during that time period. Health care providers are similarly being granted the same additional time for deadlines falling within that period.
