I agree...avoid Cigna. Many of the local docs here dropped them about a year ago as they refused to negotiate with us. Meetings were scheduled and they never showed. If enough docs turn their backs on plans the employers who choose the healthcare for their workers will eventually HAVE to choose other plans. It is working here, but very slowly. Mainly because, as Paul said, there are still young, uninformed, unindoctrinated docs coming out of residency signing up with any and all plans.
And, what is my take on the projected shortage of physicians in the very near future?? Rainy and others, I sincerely apologize to you for the forthcoming comments but, this is just what the large corporations want. That way, they can justify putting physician extenders in every corner drugstore, Wal-baums, etc. These providers do not generally get paid what a physician does. I can legitimately speak from both sides of the track as I began my medical career as a Physician Assistant. It scares me, people. We physicians are cutting off our noses to spite our faces. As Primary Care Physicians fade into oblivion, I urge you all to think 2-3 times before handing your colds, sprains, comedone extractions, etc. to a physician extender.
Now I know I have really made some enemies so I shall shut up.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "