Cigna Ends Depression Treatment Lawsuit With $2.75M Payment

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. will pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it should have covered transcranial magnetic stimulation, a treatment for depression (Weil v. Cigna Health & Life Ins. Co., C.D. Cal., No. 2:15-cv-07074-MWF-JPR, motion filed 3/20/17).

The payment will go to insured patients who were denied coverage for TMS, according to court papers filed March 20. Cigna also agreed to stop classifying TMS as an experimental treatment method not covered by its insurance plans. The insurer won’t impose new restrictions on TMS coverage for the next five years, unless government regulators or the ...