About Cigna Corporation
Our mission
Cigna (NYSE:CI), a global health service company, is dedicated to its mission of helping the people we serve improve their health, well-being and security. Cigna Corporation's operating subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision care benefits, as well as group and individual life, accident and disability insurance, to millions of people throughout the United States and around the world.
As a health service company, our involvement with customers of all kinds goes deeper than handling insurance claims. Employers look to us for the expertise, services and tools that help improve the health and well-being of their employees whether at home or on international assignment. Our individual customers seek our guidance in making informed health care decisions and rely on our insurance products and services to enhance their financial security. Business partners seek our direct marketing expertise to enrich their core product offering plus improve their loyalty programs and services to their customers.
Our history
From our roots in the U.S. cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Hartford, Connecticut, Cigna has grown and diversified. Today, the Cigna companies maintain networks of sales and service offices in major markets around the globe, maintaining a staff of some 28,000 worldwide. Cigna subsidiaries offer programs to approximately 47 million people throughout the United States and around the world. For year-end 2008, Cigna Corporation had consolidated shareholders' equity of approximately U.S. $3.6 billion and revenues from continuing operations of U.S. $19.1 billion. Cigna Corporation and its subsidiaries constitute one of the largest investor-owned health service organizations in the United States.
Our Businesses
- Cigna Healthcare : Managed medical, pharmacy and dental care services, including integrated indemnity and group life and health insurance for an employee that is primarily offered through their employer. Cigna HealthCare also offers behavioral health benefits, assistance and work/life support programs, medical management and a range of industry-leading health & wellness and behavior-change coaching services.
- Cigna Group Insurance : Disability, Life and Accident products that focus on low cost and consistent delivery of the service basics. These products are offered to employees and association members through their employers, associations and other affinity groups.
- Cigna International : Life, accident and supplemental health insurance to individuals via direct marketing; specialized health care and related employee insurance benefits to expatriate employees of multinational companies on international assignments; and health care and medical care management services to workplace and consumer markets.