Here are five insights:
1. The payer wants to reduce its customers’ opioid use by one-quarter over the next three years.
2. This reduction would result in opioid usage equal to 2006 levels, before the opioid crisis began.
3. Cigna teamed up with American Society of Addiction Medicine to reduce opioid use.
4. The payer plans to enforce stricter opioid medication limits.
5. Cigna will also offer helpful tools to assist prescribing physicians.
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