New CIGNA Website Educates and Serves Customers

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 20, 2009--CIGNA's voluntary benefits unit has launched its new website at www.starbridge.com. The site is designed to provide detailed insight into voluntary health plans for customers enrolled in the Starbridge limited-benefit health plan. CIGNA's Starbridge plans address the needs of the working uninsured, providing health insurance to part-time and hourly workers who do not have access to a comprehensive medical plan through their employer.

Starbridge.com highlights include:

Clear and easy to understand descriptions of plan and claim scenarios with simplified and improved messaging,
Valuable health care plan economic information, including guides to save on prescriptions and budgeting for health care, and
A new healthy living section that includes health and medical tips, fitness and nutrition advice, easy recipes and more.

The new Starbridge.com website is the result of feedback gathered from the working uninsured in focus groups held across the country. Participants were clear in their desire for a website that provided the information needed to understand their benefits in order to get healthy and stay healthy.

“We have an obligation to educate and serve every individual who visits Starbridge.com,” says Jeff Stelnik, general manager for CIGNA's voluntary benefits. “For many people, this is their first experience with health insurance and we have an opportunity to contribute a proven solution to the nation’s health care crisis.”

Starbridge limited-benefit health plans offer affordable health insurance to part-time and hourly workers. Benefits available with the Starbridge plan include: annual wellness exams, inpatient and outpatient benefits, access to an award-winning CIGNA employee assistance program, a 24-hour nurse line and online health information.

Visit the new site at www.starbridge.com.

CIGNA (NYSE:CI), a global health service company, is dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and security. CIGNA Corporation's operating subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision care benefits, as well as group life, accident and disability insurance, to approximately 47 million people throughout the United States and around the world. To learn more about CIGNA, visit www.cigna.com.

CIGNA Voluntary is a leading provider of limited-benefit health plans for hourly employees, serving industries such as hospitality, retail, staffing and construction. These benefit plans offer an affordable health insurance options to employees while helping employers reduce turnover, improve recruiting and stabilize benefit expenses within their hourly workforce.