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My company switched insurance providers…
My company switched insurance providers from Excellus to Cigna effective Jan 1st 2023. I go to my pharmacy to get a my migrane prescription filled. Doctors prescription is 12 pills per month. Excellus filled this prescription for 10 years. Cigna will only approve 6 pills every 22 days. Cigna claims they are following FDA guidelines. This is a FALSE statement. I signed into my Cigna account and reach out to a Cigna chat rep. 20 minutes into my chat the chat rep stated " Cigna reduces pill counts to reduce cost & control drug abuse". In order to increase the monthly pill count my doctor has to call Cigna and substantiate the rationale for the increased monthly pill count. I asked who pays for the doctors time to make this call. According to Cigna's chat rep that cost is not covered by Cigna. I go back to my earlier comment EXCELLUS COVERED MY MIGRANE PRESCRIPTION FOR 10+ YEARS. My company switched from Excellus to Cigna to lower annual healthcare costs. Corporate costs may decrease however employee cost will increase. Cigna has one goal - make the life of their clients as miserable as possible. Cigna a job well done!



