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 […]
Cigna lowers insulin price to $25 per month
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. […]
Cigna adds reimbursement coverage for 3D breast scans
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 […]
Cigna to cover Uroplasty’s over-active bladder treatment
Health insurer Cigna has issued a positive coverage decision on Uroplasty’s (NSDQ:UPI) overactive bladder (OAB) treatment, Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS).
A critical review of the insurance claim denial process
"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?"
Gingrich: GOP’s Medicare plan is “right-wing social engineering”
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.
