At Cigna, we use insights from our connected benefits, vast clinical expertise, and strength from our combination with Express Scripts to design comprehensive utilization management (UM) solutions that help improve outcomes and reduce costs.
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For those who live with diabetes, the costs of essential medications, like insulin, shouldn’t add to their burden. That’s why Cigna will offer the Patient Assurance Program beginning in 2020. This program will assist customers with diabetes, in participating plans, to manage their costs for eligible insulin products.
As part of a long-standing commitment to help curb opioid addiction and overdose, Cigna has collaborated with dentists to increase awareness of the dangers of opioids, the greater risk of misuse and addiction among teenagers, and safer non-opioid options to manage acute dental pain.
Drug abuse can become ongoing and compulsive. In fact, it only takes 10 days. With just a 10-day prescription, one in five people have an increased risk of opioid addiction.1 The Cigna Safe Opioid Starts (SOS) program attempts to help prevent this tough situation from taking root.
Lyrica is commonly used to treat pain caused by nerve damage due to diabetes, shingles (herpes zoster) infection, fibromyalgia or spinal cord injury. It is also used with other medications to treat certain types of seizures.2
On May 24, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec), a new gene replacement therapy. Zolgensma is approved to treat children less than two years of age with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) with bi-allelic mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene, a leading genetic cause of infant mortality.3
As a Pharmacy Benefits Manager within a global health service company, we uniquely deliver personalized solutions that support the whole person. Through integrated capabilities, we address every aspect of our customers’ wellness, including physical and emotional health. Our goal is to deliver greater value to you and your employees, helping them improve their well-being while you control your costs.
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