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Your rights
- Be treated with courtesy, consideration, respect, and dignity, including your need for privacy.
- Be provided with information about Aetna Better Health Kids, its policies and procedures, its services, the practitioners providing care, and members’ rights and responsibilities and to be able to communicate and be understood with the assistance of a translator if needed.
- Choose a PCP within the limits of the plan network, including the right to refuse care from specific practitioners.
- Participate in decision-making regarding your health care, including the right to refuse treatment.
- Voice grievances about Aetna Better Health Kids or care provided and recommend changes in policies and services to plan staff, providers and outside representatives of your choice, free of restraint, interference, coercion, discrimination or reprisal by the plan or its providers.
- File appeals about the Plan action or denial of service and to be free from any form of retaliation.
- Formulate advance directives.
- Request a copy of your medical records and ask that they be amended or corrected.
- Exercise your rights without Aetna Better Health Kids, our providers or the state treating you badly.
- Be free from any form of restraint or seclusion used as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation.
- Be free of hazardous procedures.
- Receive information on available treatment options or alternative courses of care in a way that you understand regardless of cost or benefit coverage, including the right to refuse treatment or medication.
- Refuse treatment and be informed of the consequences of such refusal.
- Have services provided that promote a meaningful quality of life and autonomy for you, independent living in your home and other community settings as long as medically and socially feasible, and preservation and support of your natural support systems.
- Available and accessible services when medically necessary.
- Access care 24 hours a day, seven days a week for urgent and emergency conditions. For life-threatening conditions call 911.
- Be afforded a choice of specialist among participating providers.
- Obtain a current directory of participating providers in Aetna Better Health Kids including addresses and telephone numbers, and a listing of providers who accept members who speak languages other than English.
- Obtain assistance and referral to providers with experience in treatment of patients with chronic disabilities.
- Be free from balance billing by providers for medically necessary services that were authorized by Aetna Better Health Kids.
- A second opinion.
- Prompt notification of termination or changes in benefits, series or provider network.
- Request and obtain member handbook information at least once a year.
Your responsibilities
- Use your ID cards when you go to health care appointments or get services and to not let anyone else use your card.
- Know the name of your PCP and your service coordinator, if you have one.
- Know about your health care and the rules for getting care.
- Tell Aetna Better Health Kids when you make changes to your address, telephone number, family size and other information.
- Understand your health problems and participate in developing mutually agreed-upon treatment goals, to the degree possible.
- Be respectful to the health care providers who are giving you care.
- Schedule your appointments, be on time, and call if you are going to be late to or miss your appointment.
- Give your health care providers all the information they need.
- Tell Aetna Better Health Kids about your concerns, questions or problems.
- Ask for more information if you do not understand your care or health condition.
- Follow your health care provider’s advice.
- Tell us about any other insurance you have.
- Tell us if you are applying for or get any other health care benefits.
- Bring shot records to all appointments for children under 18 years old.
- Keep track of the cost-sharing amounts you pay.
Call us
You can find out more about your rights and responsibilities by contacting Member Services. Just call 1-800-822-2447 (TTY: 711). We’re here for you Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM.