Before complex medical treatments, tests, or certain medications qualify for coverage or payment, a “prior authorization” from a patient’s health insurance provider may be required. These authorizations can play an important role in keeping patients safe, improving health outcomes and care experiences, and reducing unnecessary costs.

Comprehensive and personalized care experiences improve health outcomes, reduce overall costs, and make the patient journey less arduous by connecting care touchpoints.

When you or a loved one has a medical emergency or serious issue, choosing how and where to seek help can be overwhelming. We asked Dr. Peter W. McCauley Sr., a medical officer for Cigna Healthcare, for tips on when to visit an emergency room, an urgent care center, or a virtual care provider.

We explore how truly integrated benefits that connect medical, behavioral health and pharmacy data can lead to better management of health care costs and improved health outcomes for employees and their families.

The Newsroom sat down with Marcus Garcia, senior director of payer and strategy relations at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers to discuss the benefits of doctors referring patients to infusion centers.

If you don’t have health insurance through your job, choosing a health plan can feel overwhelming – but with the right information, finding affordable, quality healthcare can be simple.

As promising biosimilar therapies to treat inflammatory conditions become available next year, Cigna Pharmacy, which manages pharmacy benefits for some Cigna clients, is announcing that it will add select biosimilars as preferred products on its commercial formularies at the same position as Humira.

Cigna Healthcare has found that the average annual price of therapy for specialty drugs is $38,000 per patient, which is 75 times higher than non-specialty prescription drugs.

Cigna Healthcare has partnered with Alegis Care to offer home visits to Medicare Advantage customers living with multiple chronic health conditions.

High medical costs are inevitable. But they’re also predictable and manageable with the right data. Employers must understand the needs of their employees, in order to anticipate, address and manage high medical costs.

Looking for a Medicare Advantage plan? Understanding star ratings – and knowing where to find them – can help you select the plan that's best for you.

As virtual health care continues to grow, physicians and patients are utilizing technology to build relationships. We interviewed Dr. Vontrelle Roundtree, MDLIVE’s interim chief medical officer, to share her thoughts about the doctor-patient relationship and how it can thrive with virtual care.

Sachin Joshi, chief data and analytics engineering officer at Evernorth, recently sat down at VentureBeat Transform 2022 to discuss the ways Cigna is using data science, predictive modeling, and machine learning to improve patient health outcomes, reduce costs, and fix a fragmented health care system.

Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance want plans that cover behavioral and physical health care needs, according to a new AHIP survey.

The cost for prescription drugs can vary widely. But, there are steps that people can take to ensure they get the most bang for their buck. Below, we dive into some of the ways that you can save money at the pharmacy counter.

Scams are rampant in today’s world, in health care and other areas. While anyone of any age can be targeted, older adults are particularly at risk. Last year, fraud cost U.S. seniors more than $1.5 billion. Here is some advice that can help older adults – and younger people, too – protect themselves from scams.

Biosimilars represent a meaningful opportunity to reduce drug spending by as much as $375 billion over the next decade. Cigna is committed to driving greater value and lower costs where clinically appropriate for our customers and clients. As a longtime advocate for greater availability of biosimilars, we have worked for a decade to advance the pathways needed to bring biosimilars to market.

At Cigna Healthcare, our diabetes care solutions are built around a whole-person health strategy. The aim is to help identify, prevent and manage diabetes by connecting individuals to the right level of care. We look at some of the ways our approach has helped patients save money, and improves medication adherence and health outcomes.

Patients may not be aware that infusion centers are quality sites of care that are often more affordable options for receiving infusions for complex conditions such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, and hepatitis C.

When employers select health plan networks for their employees, they may look at the pure size of a network and assume the more doctors, hospitals, and clinics that are included, the better. However, size alone does not equal quality. The quality of care a patient receives is critical in managing the total cost of care, which includes medical, pharmacy, and behavioral care costs.

According to new research from AHIP, the cost to patients and their health plans is particularly high when specialty drugs are administered to patients in a hospital setting. The key finding: Specialty pharmacies are the more affordable option.

Cigna has announced an additional $450 million investment in Cigna Ventures, our corporate venture fund focused on finding and partnering with health tech startups as they look to become a catalyst for bold new opportunities to improve people's health and make health care more affordable, simple, and predictable.

Prior authorization – also called preauthorization, preapproval, and precertification – is a tool that helps health plans protect patient health and safety and improve affordability by reducing unnecessary costs.

To better understand the virtual care landscape we sat down with Dr. William Lopez, national medical director for virtual care at Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s health services business. Read on to get some insights around how virtual care will augment and complement the health care experience.

A new whitepaper from Cigna shows that virtual care can help to drive down health care costs for customers.