Cigna Corporation has entered into a partnership with CVS Health in order to launch a new model, Cigna Health Works. The new model will provide patients with convenient and affordable access to pharmacy and healthcare.
Cigna partners with CVS team
The company said this partnership will help in aligning Cigna-administered health benefits with that of CVS MinuteClinic retail health care services and CVS Pharmacy in order to deliver a consumer-friendly experience for all the Cigna self-funded employer-sponsored health plans.
What Michele Paige has to say?
Michele Paige, vice president and general manager of Cigna Onsite Health said, ‘Cigna Health Works flips the traditional health care experience on its head to help make health benefits more effective, affordable and user-friendly’.
Paige added, ‘This new model is based on how the customer wants to consume health care — it’s about creating value and a new way for health care consumers to get more from their health plan, by ensuring that we are there for them at the places they prefer to go for convenient care’.
What Helena Foulkes has to say?
Helena Foulkes, president of CVS Pharmacy said, ‘This new level of collaboration with Cigna is a part of the growing trend toward consumer-directed care. By providing information and cues for CVS customers and patients to help them get the most from their Cigna-administered health benefits, we also help them improve their health and reduce their health care costs in a way that’s easy and convenient’.
Cigna Health Works to improve health care quality
According to Paige, Cigna Health Works will provide both the opportunity so as to improve health care quality, and also reducing employer and even individual health care costs. Further, it will reduce the potential gaps in care too.
Paige said, ‘As the popularity of retail health care continues to rise, Cigna Health Works is designed to help improve health care quality and address potential gaps in care. In some markets, up to one-third of Cigna customers have used some form of retail health care within a year’s time’.
She added, ‘By connecting all constituents in the care continuum, Cigna Health Works is designed to close potential gaps and improve the quality of care our customers receive’.
Date: June 19, 2017
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