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NEWS ABOUT: Cigna

Cigna stories: 4 news summaries

Ex-Exec: Insurers Rip Off Customers

Senate panel hears of junk policies, efforts
to dump sick peope

Jun 24, 09 8:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the latest battle in the public vs. private health insurance debate, private insurers took a beating today on Capitol Hill. The gist, as presented by a Senate report and testimony from a former PR executive: Insurance companies routinely make consumers pay for bills the companies themselves should cover, sell... More »

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health insurance • Senate • health care reform • Cigna • health insurers

US Insurers Warming to Medical Tourism

Sending patients to India, elsewhere could save $20B a year

Jun 30, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’re in need of high-priced surgery, your insurance company might have a plane ticket for you. Insurers are starting to warm to “medical tourism” for the same reason uninsured Americans are: Surgery is significantly cheaper overseas. At least 150,000 Americans go abroad for medical procedures every... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Aetna • Cigna • health insurers • Blue Cross • medical tourism

Was Company at Fault in
Teen's Death?

Edwards champions cause of young patient, but case is not clear

Jan 7, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Seventeen-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who died waiting for a liver transplant in December, has become the poster girl for John Edwards' call for a government-run health plan. Insurance giant Cigna denied her family's claim for the procedure, then reversed its decision a month later. She died shortly thereafter. But the story... More »

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health care • John Edwards • insurance companies • Cigna • Nataline Sarkisyan

'They Took
My Daughter
Away From Me'

Family plans to sue insurer after teen dies awaiting liver transplant

Dec 21, 07 7:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The family of a 17-year-old whose insurer had refused to OK a liver transplant plans to sue the company in the wake of the girl's death, the Los Angeles Times reports. Leukemia patient Nataline Sarkisyan died after Cigna HealthCare refused to fund the transplant despite doctors’ recommendations. After online... More »

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health care • health care industry • leukemia • liver • UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital • Cigna • Nataline Sarkisyan

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