Aetna Completes $750 Million Bond Offering

Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced that it has completed a public offering of $375 million of 2.200 percent Senior Notes due in 2019 and $375 million of 4.750 percent Senior Notes due in 2044. The company intends to use the entire net proceeds from the offering, together with other available resources, to redeem all of its outstanding 6.000 percent Senior Notes due in 2016.

About Aetna

Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving an estimated 44 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, workers' compensation administrative services and health information technology products and services. Aetna's 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.