Cigna Says It Reduced Opioid Use By 25 percent

Cigna, one of America's largest health insurers, says it has reduced the use of prescription opioids among its members by 25 percent.

The Bloomfield, Conn.-based firm, with $41.6 billion in sales, set the reduction goal in May 2016 and had expected it to take three years to reduce opioid prescriptions that much. Instead, it did it in two.

The 25 percent figure takes into account both the number of opioids prescribed by doctors treating patients covered by Cigna and their strength, via a measure of morphine equivalent doses.

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