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CIGNA Study: Americans with CDHPs Cut Medical Costs Without Cutting Care
Study shows CDHP cost savings can help in an ailing economy

CIGNA Choice Fund account-based consumer driven health plans (CDHPs) reduced medical cost trend by 13 percent relative to HMO and PPO plans, even as individuals enrolled in CDHPs use more preventive services and comply with their medical treatments, according to a new multi-year study that compares the health care claims experience of nearly 440,000 covered by CIGNA CDHPs and traditional HMOs and PPOs.

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CIGNA Enhances Incentive Points Program
Program now offers more options to deliver motivation and drive active participation in health improvement programs

Changing unhealthy behaviors is the way to improve health, increase productivity and reduce costs. But how do you compel individuals to get started?

Whether a client has 50 or 50,000 lives, CIGNA's Incentive Points Program provides a turn-key solution to deliver the motivation required to drive higher participation in health improvement programs.

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CIGNA Expands Healthy Rewards® Programs to all Life, Accident and Disability Plans

Let’s face it, if employees aren’t feeling well, productivity slacks, sick days add up and a business suffers. The facts bear it out: 25% of health care expenditures are attributable to modifiable health risks — including high stress, tobacco use, body weight, activity levels and nutritional habits.1

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1Anderson DR, Whitmer RW, Goetzel RZ, Ozminkowski RH, Dunn RL, Wasserman J., Serxner S; Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Research Committee (2000). Am J Health Promot. 15(1), 45-52.

Lipitor® Moves to Preferred Brand Status on CIGNA's Prescription Drug List
Move will result in significantly reduced costs for individuals CIGNA serves who use Lipitor

CIGNA Pharmacy Management has moved Lipitor, the world’s number one selling drug, to the less expensive preferred brand on the company’s prescription drug list. Moving Lipitor to a preferred brand will result in significantly reduced costs for individuals CIGNA serves who use Lipitor – whether filling those prescriptions at a retail pharmacy or at CIGNA Tel-Drug Home Delivery Pharmacy. The savings became effective with prescriptions filled beginning on November 11, 2008.

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New Oral Health Education Video on CIGNA.com
Raise employee awareness on the importance of oral health

In an ongoing effort to help our customers engage and educate their employees, CIGNA TV News presents a brief educational video on the importance of preventive care and how gum disease and other oral conditions can affect your overall health. This video uses a newscast approach and can be distributed to employees or posted on a company website.

View the brief video here.

Health Care News and Trends

Is Your ZIP Code Making You Sick?
CIGNA Offers Communities of Health Nationally with Pilot in Las Vegas

Evidence shows that where you live has as much influence over whether you get sick as how you live. So CIGNA introduced Communities of Health to help cities, towns and neighborhoods consider the social and environmental factors that determine health and create community-based solutions.

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White papers describe the social and environmental determinants of health and how community factors can compromise conventional efforts to address childhood obesity.

Regional News

What's happening locally
CIGNA HealthCare news for your area

Get the latest CIGNA HealthCare news for your part of the country. Every month, we post new articles of interest and update the states to which they apply. Here's where you'll also find up-to-date local contact information to help you with your questions and concerns. Want to know the news for your area? Find out here.

(NOTE: States with new articles of special interest are highlighted in blue.)

Webinars and Newsletters of Interest

2009 CIGNA Choice Fund 3rd Annual Experience Study Webinar

Academy by CIGNA presents a complimentary Webinar on February 4, 2009 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Eastern Time featuring Adam Rudin, FSA, MAAA, Actuarial Senior Director, CIGNA HealthCare.

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The Year Ahead: Health Care Reform, A Preliminary Look

Academy by CIGNA presents a complimentary Conference Call on February 24, 2009 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Eastern Time featuring William Hoagland, CIGNA Vice President of Public Policy.

To register for this Conference Call, please click here. Please provide your name, company and e-mail address. A confirmation email with access information will be sent to you on February 20, 2009.

Please register by February 16, 2009.

Best Practices for Employee Health and Productivity
Replays of all eight 2008 Webinar sessions are now available

In 2008, CIGNA hosted Best Practices for Employee Health and Productivity, an eight-course series of Webinars on timely health and productivity issues for today’s employers. Each session featured an expert speaker, provided an in-depth look at factors that impact overall health and total costs, and discussed the dollars and sense of an integrated approach to employee benefits.

For a list of Webinar topics and downloadable replay files, please visit us at www.cigna.com/hpwebinars. 

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