Cigna Becomes First Plan to Reimburse for Behavioral Health Coaching Via Ginger
What You Should Know:
– Cigna just announced that they’re the first national plan to reimburse for behavioral health coaching, a new covered benefit available now to 14M members through Ginger. Essentially, Cigna customers with employer-sponsored or individual and family (IFP) insurance plans (14M of their 16M members) can access Ginger’s behavioral health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry services as an in-network benefit.
– During the pandemic, Cigna saw a significant increase in demand for mental health services (27% increase), and 60+% of behavioral health customers conducted at least one virtual session in 2020, signaling that it needed to expand MH covered benefits. There is a national shortage of therapists and psychiatrists, and behavioral health coaching adds a new level of care – and a new pool of trained and certified clinicians who can provide care on-demand that’s an alter
Cigna is the first national health plan to offer Ginger’s behavioral health coaching as an in-network benefit SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) Ginger, the leader in on-demand mental healthcare, today announced it is joining the Cigna network of providers to bring Ginger’s full suite of virtual mental health services to 14 million Cigna behavioral health customers nationwide. Now,
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Building a machine learning model to filter analyze 120 million tweets showed researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory how COVID-19 conspiracy theories evolved over time. The tool could someday help public health officials combat misinformation online, lab representatives said.
“We wanted to create a more cohesive understanding of how misinformation changes as it spreads,” said Courtney Shelley, a postdoctoral researcher in the Information Systems and Modeling Group at the lab. “Because people tend to believe the first message they encounter, public health officials could someday monitor which conspiracy theories are gaining traction on social media and craft factual public information campaigns to preempt widespread acceptance of falsehoods.”
This image shows the change in word importance over time for tweets related to the Bill and Melinda Gates conspiracy theory. In the top panel, the x-axis represents time while the y-axis shows important words. Color represents the importance of words, with darker color indicating higher importance. In the bottom panel are word clouds for each topic. Word size corresponds to word weight (higher weighted words appear larger). Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
A new machine-learning program accurately identifies COVID-19-related conspiracy theories on social media and models how they evolved over timeâa tool that could someday help public health officials combat misinformation online.