Cigna LifeSOURCE Transplant Network Clients
Cigna LifeSOURCE Transplant Network Clients
Cost Saving
Cigna LifeSOURCE has a dedicated contracting team with more than 45 years of transplant contracting experience. This experience contributes to their strong skill set for negotiating competitive transplant rates that helps create:
- Global contracts with our transplant programs that are inclusive of all hospital, professional and ancillary services, including organ procurement
- Contracts that are easy to administer and understand
Transplant Care Coordinator Support
Each account is assigned a Transplant Care Coordinator (TCC). A TCC has a background in professional nursing licensed as an RN in at least one state. A TCC’s main role is to support your case managers to help them understand the Cigna LifeSOURCE referral process, contracts, data outcomes, consultative education and claims.
Network Access Clients
For transplant case referral support, account management and sales, email: lifesourceweb@Cigna.com
Access to QUALITY TRANSPLANT CARE
Cigna LifeSOURCE Transplant Network contracts with over 800 transplant programs at more than 170 independent transplant facilities. We provide our clients with the access they need for solid organ and bone marrow stem cell transplantation while improving cost containment and reducing their financial risk.
Quality: Extensive initial evaluation and annual program reviews ensures that each transplant program meets rigorous standards to be classified as a Designated Program.
Cost containment: Our experienced contracting team negotiates provider contracts that utilize a traditional case rate methodology and offer superior cost containment performance. Only 10 percent of our agreements contain minimum payment provisions - the lowest in the industry.
Access: With over 800 transplant programs at more than 170 transplant facilities, Cigna LifeSOURCE clients have access to transplant programs that fit their unique and individual needs.
Advanced Cellular Therapy (ACT): This flyer helps explain how Advanced Cellular Therapy (which includes CAR T-cell therapies) works, the steps involved in administering therapy, and an overview of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved CAR T-cell therapies, indications, manufacturers, and Wholesale Acquisition Cost.
Experience you can depend on: Cigna LifeSOURCE manages over 6,000 transplant cases per year. Our team includes experts with transplant-specific knowledge in contracting, benefit design support, quality assurance, claims repricing and clinical support. The team also includes a medical director with over a decade of transplant experience.
Ease of use: Access to key data such as provider contract rate information, outcomes data and the ability to submit referrals online is only a click away through the Cigna LifeSOURCE website. In addition, each client has access to an experienced transplant care coordinator and account manager to meet your transplant-related needs.
Proven results: With access to Designated Programs across the country that have:
- Outstanding clinical results
- Provider contracts with superior cost containment performance that on average achieve 47 percent savings off billed charges for evaluation services through one year post-transplant
- Traditional case rate methodology that avoids minimum payment provisions
- Competitive access fees
Cigna LifeSOURCE is the natural choice for the transplant needs of your clients.
For more information, email lifesourceweb@Cigna.com
