{"id":23946,"date":"2025-01-30T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23946"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:17:10","slug":"cignas-plan-to-cut-drug-costs-5-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23946","title":{"rendered":"Cigna&#8217;s plan to cut drug costs: 5 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Express Scripts, The Cigna Group&#8217;s pharmaceutical benefit manager, will implement new policies designed to prevent members from paying the full list price for drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Express Scripts patients spend less than $100 out-of-pocket for their prescriptions each year, but some patients in high-deductible plans may pay the full list price for medications, according to a Jan. 29 news release.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cignas-plan-to-cut-drug-costs-5-notes.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cignas-plan-to-cut-drug-costs-5-notes.html\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-10021\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Express Scripts, The Cigna Group&#8217;s pharmaceutical benefit manager, will implement new policies designed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,200,15],"tags":[385,238,884,544,812],"class_list":["post-23946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-healthcare-redesign","tag-out-of-pocket-costs","tag-prescription-drug-costs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23947,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946\/revisions\/23947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}