For U.S. consumers, the pharmacy can sometimes be a bit of a scary place. Many Americans have been hit with a ghastly sticker shock at the pharmacy — learning the exorbitant cost of their…
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As the number of Americans with chronic conditions continues to grow, health plans are constantly trying new approaches to meet their condition management goals with fewer resources. Payers are seeking to optimize outcomes while…
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Cigna Healthcare launched a partnership with HelloFresh on Tuesday to expand access to healthy food for those covered by their employer.
Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Cigna Healthcare is the health benefits division of The Cigna Group. The…
Omada, a virtual healthcare provider, announced Tuesday that it is expanding its GLP-1 companion solution to include musculoskeletal exercise programming and member-level reporting for employers, payers and pharmacy benefit managers.
San Francisco-based Omada serves employers,…
Less than one-fifth of U.S. adults know the cost of their healthcare products and services prior to receiving them, according to the results of a new Gallup poll. The results were released this month…
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About one in five adults in the U.S. experience mental illness each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Yet, nearly a quarter of adults with a mental illness are unable to…
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I’m too old to be a millennial. I’m too young to be a Gen X-er. Folks like me who were born in the late 1970s are better classified as the Oregon Trail Generation, named…
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The decisions health insurance executives make reverberate across the healthcare industry. Reimbursement policies, billing practices, the decisions that govern which technologies to adopt affect members, physician practices, hospitals and health systems. The Biden administration…
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When insurtech Bright Health Group first emerged back in 2015, it had bold goals of disrupting the insurance industry by leveraging technology. It raised a whopping $2.4 billion — including from Cigna Ventures — and went…
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