From naming its first chief health officer to offering individual ACA plans in three new states, here are eight headlines about Cigna that Becker's has reported since Aug. 2:
1. Cigna is among the backers of mental health platform Alma, which said Aug. 25 it has raised $130 million in series D funding.
2. Cigna on Aug. 30 named David Brailer, MD, PhD, as executive vice president and its first chief health officer.
3. Cigna said Aug. 29 that it will offer health plans on the individual ACA marketplace across 50 counties across Texas, Indiana and South Carolina for the first time, pending regulatory approval.
4. Cigna's health services business Evernorth is partnering with Bicycle Health to offer virtual opioid use disorder treatments. Bicycle Health's services are now part of Evernorth's behavioral health network and are available to all Evernorth clients, as well as Cigna health plan customers who receive health coverage through their employer or marketplace exchange plans in 24 states, according to an Aug. 25 Bicycle Health news release.
5. Cigna on Aug. 19 named Jerome Droesch as CEO of domestic health and health services for all of the company's businesses outside the U.S.
6. Three Bayonne, N.J.-based CarePoint Health hospitals sued Cigna on Aug. 8 for allegedly "drastically" underpaying them and refusing to pay them for services.
7. Cigna beat Wall Street expectations and pulled in $1.6 billion for shareholders in the second quarter, according to the company's earnings report published Aug. 4.
8. Cigna and Mobile-based Ascension Health Alabama agreed to renew their commercial contract, the Birmingham Business Journal reported Aug. 2.