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Integrated Hospital Performance Data Now Available on www.CIGNA.com; New Help for Consumers Making Critical Health Care Choices.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn., April 20, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CIGNA HealthCare is offering an integrated online Hospital Value Tool to help consumers when choosing a hospital. The online tool provides "star-based" health care patient outcome and cost efficiency ratings for hospital-based treatments of 19 medical conditions using both CIGNA and third-party hospital data.

The new tool is available to the general public at no charge in the online http://www.cigna.com/ Provider Directory, and to CIGNA HealthCare members via myCIGNA.com, their personal health benefits Web portal.

"To successfully navigate an increasingly complex health care system, people need a road map ...

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