Intercoastal Medical Group patients in Sarasota and Manatee counties enrolled in an Aetna Medicare Advantage plan recently received notice the insurance company has dropped the medical group from its coverage beginning Dec. 1.
What it means is patients with any of the eight Aetna Medicare Advantage plans who see the 110 doctors at any of the five Intercoastal Medical Group sites will have to reschedule their December appointments for November or change companies and wait until after the new year.
“Basically, Aetna dropped us, end of story,” Intercoastal CEO Geoffrey Simon said. “A lot of the patients believe that this is a negotiating tactic between us and Aetna. I want to be clear, this is not a negotiating tactic. There is no 11th hour solution to us being in the network.”…