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Inspire Medical wins coverage from Cigna

June 18, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Inspire Medical Systems (NYSE:INSP) has announced that Cigna will provide insurance coverage for the company’s Inspire obstructive sleep apnea therapy beginning this week. Cigna insures approximately 16 million members in the U.S., the minimally invasive sleep apnea treatment developer noted. The addition of Cigna brings the total of insurance policies covering Inspire to 54, representing over […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Respiratory, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Cigna, FDA, Inspire Medical Systems Inc.

Cigna lowers insulin price to $25 per month

April 3, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Under pressure from patients and the FDA, Cigna (NYSE:CI) and Express Scripts said today that they will lower the price of insulin to $25 per month for some patients. Three firms — Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi — control 90% of the global insulin market and produce all the insulin used in the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Pharmaceutical, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Cigna, Eli Lilly & Co., Express Scripts, FDA, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi

Cigna adds reimbursement coverage for 3D breast scans

August 25, 2016 By Brad Perriello

Cigna (NYSE:CI) said this week that it’s revising its coverage to include 3D mammography for routine breast cancer screening. The Bloomfield, Conn.-based health insurer only reimbursed for 3D breast scans made for diagnosis, based on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s finding that there’s not enough data to show that 3D mammography is better than traditional mammography in […]

Filed Under: Imaging, Women's Health Tagged With: Cigna, GE Healthcare, Hologic, Reimbursement

Cigna to cover Uroplasty’s over-active bladder treatment

February 25, 2015 By Val Kennedy Leave a Comment

Uroplasty scores reimbursement win from Humana

Health insurer Cigna has issued a positive coverage decision on Uroplasty’s (NSDQ:UPI) overactive bladder (OAB) treatment, Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS).

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Cigna, Uroplasty Inc.

A critical review of the insurance claim denial process

June 7, 2013 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

"If you can speak what you will never hear
if you can write what you will never read, 
you have done rare things."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Doctor, how much longer?"

Filed Under: Blog, News Well Tagged With: Cigna, Insurance

Gingrich: GOP’s Medicare plan is “right-wing social engineering”

May 16, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

Newt Gingrich

Conservative icon Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House who’s mounting a run at the White House, lambasted a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare over the weekend, calling it "right-wing social engineering.”

Gingrich also voiced his support for the controversial lynch-pin of President Barack Obama’s landmark health care reform law, the so-called individual mandate, which is the object of a slew of constitutional challenges in courts around the country.

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, Legal News, Medicare, News Well Tagged With: Aetna, Cigna, Coventry Health Care Inc., Humana, UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint

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