Cigna Expands Collaboration With Cricket Health To Provide Multidisciplinary Kidney Care

On March 24, 2020, Cricket Health, a comprehensive kidney care provider organization, announced an expansion of its existing collaboration with Cigna, a global health service company. The expansion will enable Cricket Health to use its proprietary machine-learning algorithm to identify Cigna members living with, or at risk of developing, late-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), and will deploy a full care team for these individuals. These expanded services will begin in May 2020, and will be available to Cigna's commercially-insured members living in the California market.

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