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Title: CIGNA Consumer-Driven Health Care


1
CIGNA Consumer-Driven Health Care HSA-qualified
HDHP Program Overview For employers with 50 or
fewer employees
2
Todays Discussion
  • Growth of Consumer-Driven Health Plans
  • The CIGNA Approach To Consumer-Driven Health Care
  • HSA Overview
  • Engagement and Advocacy
  • Service Experience and Employee Education

3
Consumer-Driven Health Momentum Has Reached All
Segments
Optional Slide
Currently Offer Offer by 2007
All employers (gt1,000) 16 38
Large employers 20 - 25 50
Mid-size employers 5 8 33
Small employers Under 3 33
end of 2004 Forrester Research. Employers
Sound Off on CDHPs, May 2005.
4
Approach To Consumer-Driven Health Care
5
What We Stand For
Optional Slide
Improve health. Its our single focus. It means
we stand for care that is effective and personal
choices that matter. It means we connect the
health of your employees to the health of your
business.
6
Our Approach
  • Improve Health Control Costs
  • Consumerism personal choices that matter
  • Enabling informed healthcare decisions
  • Health Advocacy care thats effective
  • Delivering integrated care for superior clinical
    outcomes
  • Actionable Information connecting employee
    health to the health of your business
  • Providing consumers with the tools they need to
    make informed decisions about their health

7
HSA Overview
8
Definitions
  • Health Savings Account
  • A tax-exempt trust or custodial account created
    exclusively to pay for the qualified medical
    expenses of the account holder and his or her
    spouse or dependents.
  • Covers all medical expenses listed in IRC section
    213(d)
  • Can be used only in conjunction with a qualified
    high-deductible health plan
  • Funded with actual dollars
  • Remains the property of the account holder no
    use it or lose it rules
  • High-Deductible Health Plan
  • A medical plan that meets certain criteria set by
    the federal government

Minimum Deductible 1,100 single / 2,200 family
Out-of-Pocket Maximum 5,500 single / 11,000 family
These are 2007 limits. Limits for future years
will be set by the IRS.
9
Working Together
A high deductible health plan (HDHP) is required
for an HSA
  • Minimum Deductible
  • 1,100 Single / 2,200 Family
  • Maximum Out of Pocket
  • 5,500 Single / 11,000 Family
  • Deductible and covered expenses apply to
    out-of-pocket maximum
  • 100 Preventive coverage recommended
  • One deductible amount for Medical and Pharmacy
  • 2007 Federal Limits

10
HSA Overview
Funding Employer and/or Employee Maximum Lesser of in-network deductible or annual limit set by IRS (For 2007, 2,850 for individuals/5,650 for families)
Tax Advantages Account balances Investment earnings grow tax-free Withdrawals for qualified expenses are tax-free
Account Ownership Employee
Flexibility Employee chooses to use or save
Portability Yes. Employee owns the fund
Annual Rollover Yes
Qualifying Expenses 213(d) medical expenses not covered by HDHP, long-term care, COBRA
  • CIGNA Advantages
  • HSA banking option powered by JPMorgan Chase
  • Industry-leading consumer decision support tools,
    including WebMD suite of tools
  • Leading clinical resources
  • Helping create more engaged consumers and lower
    medical costs.

11
CIGNA Plan Design Options
12
Tax Advantages of an HSA
  • Tax-Free Contributions
  • Employee contributions income tax-free
  • Employer contributions (optional) Deductible for
    employer not taxable for employee
  • Tax-Free Interest and Investment Gains
  • Interest and gains accrue tax free while they
    remain in the HSA
  • Tax-Free Withdrawals
  • Withdrawals for a qualified medical expense are
    not taxed
  • Other withdrawals incur income taxes plus 10
    penalty (lt65)

In Alabama, California, New Jersey, and
Wisconsin, contributions are prior to federal
taxes but after state income taxes. Employer
contributions, earned interest and investment
income are taxable as gross income for state
income tax purposes.
13
Engagement and Advocacy
14
CIGNA Resources Address the
Continuum of Consumer Health Needs
Help ? Assess ? Target
Health advocacy services to engage, navigate and
facilitate services across the continuum of care
15
Consumers, Armed With
The Right Information, Can Take Action
Criteria Diagnostic Lab Drug Outpatient Surgery
Opportunity to plan MRI Prozac Arthroscopic Joint surgery
Price variation Hospital vs. Stand-alone imaging centers Brand vs. Generic Retail vs. Mail Hospital vs. Stand-alone surgery center
16
The Key myCIGNA.com
  • Review benefit coverage levels
  • Track account balance, claims and payments
  • Support important health decisions
  • Cost and quality information
  • Read personalized messages

16
17
Health Risk Assessment
  • 15-minute questionnaire helps determine accurate
    personal health status
  • Employs 5,000 calculations that screen for over
    21 clinical risk factors
  • Results are integrated with CIGNAs Disease
    Management Programs

17
18
Procedure Pricing Tool
Saint Hospital
Community Hospital
19
Prescription Pricing Tool
  • Members select pharmacy and drug
  • Receive actual price theyll pay

LOCAL PHARMACY 123 MAIN STREETHOMETOWN, ST
00000(555) 123-4567
20
Hospital Quality Information
Saint Hospital
123 Main StreetHometown, ST 00000(123) 555-1234
Community Central Hospital
123 Center StreetHometown, ST 00000(123)
555-5678
21
Hospital Quality Information
  • Hospital information tool allows members to
    compare hospitals based on data for 164 surgical
    and medical procedures
  • Personalized with In/Out of Network indicators to
    help members understand financial implications of
    decisions
  • Physician Surgical Volume results will be
    included in limited areas

22
Service Experience and Employee Education
23
CIGNA HSA-qualified HDHPwhen powered by JPMorgan
Chase
We have capitalized on the strengths of both
organizations to deliver an empowered HSA
  • CIGNA
  • HDHP claim adjudication
  • JD Power certified customer service
  • Large National Network
  • Medical management
  • Decision support tools
  • Enrollment and communication support
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Debit card/checkbook processing
  • Financial service specialists
  • Interest crediting
  • Scheduled and unscheduled deposits
  • Investment options

CIGNA Advantages
  • Consumer
  • One toll-free member services number
  • Combined web experience via myCIGNA.com and link
    to JPMC
  • Online bank application and signature
  • 100 Preventive Care coverage
  • Employer
  • An affordable alternative to health care
  • Provides employees with savings opportunity
  • Potential for reduced claim costs

24
Two Ways to Access HSA Dollarsif account is
established through JPMorgan Chase
  • HSA Debit Card
  • Visa branded, issued by Chase
  • Can be used at ATM as well
  • Checkbook
  • Two Ways to Track Utilization
  • if account is established through JPMorgan Chase
  • myCIGNA.com
  • Access to claim transactions and history
  • Link to JPMC member website
  • JPMorgan Chase Member Website
  • Access to Health Savings Account transaction and
    balance information
  • General Information (including investment
    options) available

25
Improve Health The CIGNA Advantage
A more aware health care consumer
Member Education
Open Enrollment
Personalized Media
Provider Outreach
Member activities
myCIGNA.com, WebMD, 800.CIGNA24 Education
  • Outreach triggers
  • Health risk assessment
  • Predictive model
  • Integrated data
  • Referrals
  • Clinical Programs
  • Health promotion
  • Disease Management
  • Care Management

CIGNA activities
CIGNA Health Advocacy Clinical Resources
26
Simplifying Your Communication Needs
  • Access to communication materials
  • Newsletters
  • Business activities

27
Using Communications
To Build Active, Engaged Members
POST-ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT
28
Awards And Recognition Demonstrate CIGNAs
Commitment To The Consumer
Optional Slide
CIGNA has catapulted itself into the top ranks
- Consumer Driven Market Report, September
2004 1 in Health Sector IT - 2006
InformationWeek 500
Americas Best Health Plans NCQA
  • Best Technology Communications Introduced by a
    Health Plan Organization for Employee/Consumer
    Choice
  • 2005 Consumer Directed Health Care Conference
    Expo
  • 2005 CIGNA Plans Recognized

NCQA Highest Effectiveness of Care Measures 5
years in a row (2001 2005)
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