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CIGNA Government Services Federal Medicare Contracts Awarded Prestigious Quality Management Certification

CIGNA Government Casework today appear it has afresh accomplished the celebrated International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 certification, an internationally accustomed superior administration, mac, system. Acceptance includes all CGS Part B and Abiding Medical Accessories Medicare Authoritative Architect (DME MAC) Program Administration functions beneath arrangement with The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Casework (CMS).ISO 9001:2008 acceptance requires organizations to advance and attach to acrimonious superior administration standards and to accept controls and mechanisms in abode to accede with all authoritative requirements.

The ISO 9001:2008 acceptance aswell requires processes that enhance chump achievement and ensure around-the-clock improvements. Companies are appropriate to canyon an all-embracing analysis of all superior administration processes above-mentioned to accepting certification.“This accolade recognizes CIGNA's adherence to connected superior improvement. Achieving this akin of acceptance underscores the charge we’ve fabricated to our barter to always accession the bar on performance,” said Jean Rush, admiral of CIGNA Government Services.

“We yield actual actively our albatross as a Medicare architect and the absolute appulse we can accept on the lives of millions of Medicare beneficiaries, providers of abiding medical accessories and bloom affliction professionals. I am appreciative of our employees’ connected charge to superior and achievement arete approved by this certification.”CIGNA Government Casework has provided casework to Medicare back 1991. In June 2007, CIGNA was awarded the better of four DME MAC affairs to accommodate claims processing, chump account and authoritative casework to over 55,000 abiding medical equipment, prosthetics, and orthotics suppliers in 15 states, including: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia as able-bodied as the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.

S. Virgin Islands. CIGNA aswell holds federal Medicare Part B affairs for North Carolina and Idaho.