{"id":243956,"date":"2025-10-27T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:15:10","slug":"cigna-will-end-drug-rebates-in-many-private-health-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243956\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigna Will End Drug Rebates in Many Private Health Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/CI:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Cigna Group<\/a> will eliminate prescription drug rebates in many of its commercial health plans in 2027, upending an opaque, controversial practice that\u2019s drawn the ire of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The insurer will expand the rebate-free model to clients of its pharmacy benefits business starting in 2028. The plan to eventually phase out rebates more broadly portends a seismic shift in the flow of billions of dollars among drugmakers, insurers and employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cigna Group will eliminate prescription drug rebates in many of its commercial health plans in 2027, upending an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,26818,14208,91931,2971,893,84,392,14211,19772,995,1942,114535,3642],"class_list":["post-243956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cvs-health-corp","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-drug-companies","tag-drugs","tag-government","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-industries","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-regulation","tag-social-media","tag-the-cigna-group","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}