11 Facts About Cigna

1.

Cigna is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

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2.

Cigna offers Medicare and Medicaid products and health, life and accident insurance coverages primarily to individuals in the U S and selected international markets.

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3.

Cigna was formed by the 1982 merger of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and INA Corporation .

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4.

Cigna name, Cigna, is a mix of letters from the merging companies, CG and INA.

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5.

Cigna sold the majority of its life insurance operations to Lincoln National Corporation in 1997.

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6.

In June 2020, Cigna formed a strategic alliance with Priority Health to make comprehensive health care coverage more affordable and accessible to Michigan employers and customers.

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7.

In September 2020, Cigna rebranded its health services portfolio under the name Evernorth, which included Express Scripts, Accredo, and eviCore.

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8.

Cigna Global Health Benefits is a business unit within Cigna.

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9.

However, Cigna offered to pay for the transplant itself when it made the exception to the policy.

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10.

In January 2010, Cigna received the JD Power award for customer service for all of its call centers for the fourth time in a row.

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11.

In July 2010, Cigna began giving each company employee eight hours of paid time off annually to volunteer with non-profit health and community service organizations.

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