{"id":27083,"date":"2017-04-10T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/27083\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T01:30:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T01:30:28","slug":"cigna-reports-12-percent-cut-in-opioid-use-among-u-s-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/27083","title":{"rendered":"Cigna states 12 percent cut-in opioid consumption among U.S. consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p><p>From Reuters:<\/p>\r\n<p>Because epidemic of opioid abuse regularly you need to its cost through U.S. health system, wellness insurer Cigna Corp on Thursday reported an almost 12 percent autumn prescription opioid usage among its customers formerly a-year.<\/p>\r\n<p>Final may, Cigna pledged to cut back its consumers’ prescriptions for opioid remedies by 25 percent by 2019, included into its work to arrest the alteration of misuse.<\/p>\r\n<p>Cigna besides provides doctors information through particular statements databases to spot opioid use strategies that advise feasible discipline by people and notifications doctors if their prescription techniques are not relating to CDC tips.<\/p>\r\n<br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" edge=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23582\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23582&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" circumference=\"1\" standard=\"1\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><p>From Reuters:<\/p>\n<p>As the epidemic of opioid abuse continues to take its toll on the U.S. healthcare system, health insurer Cigna Corp on Thursday reported a nearly 12 percent drop prescription opioid use among its customers in the past twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>Last May, Cigna pledged to cut its customers’ prescriptions for opioid treatments by 25 percent by 2019, as part of its effort to arrest the wave of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Cigna also sends doctors information from its own claims databases to detect opioid use patterns that suggest possible misuse by individuals and alerts physicians if their prescription patterns are not consistent with CDC guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23582\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23582&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}