Cigna Healthy Baby Program

Cigna Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Babies is a comprehensive maternity condition management program for eligible Cigna members. This program aims to educate and support at the very start of conception, to ensure healthy pregnancies and babies by:

• Supplementing and enhancing the doctor-patient relationship
• Helping you better understand all aspects of your pregnancies so you can ask better questions and become better prepared to make decisions around testing, treatments for medical conditions and delivery
• Encouraging sensible prenatal behaviors, like quitting smoking, eating the right food, and seeing a doctor regularly

How The Program Works

Once pregnancy is confirmed, you should enroll in the program by downloading the Cigna Healthy Pregnancy app, or by calling (800) 615-2906 and follow the prompts to “Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Babies.”

You will speak with a maternity specialist, who will take you through an initial risk assessment. Based on the results of this assessment, you will receive appropriate prenatal education, care management support, and routine follow-up assessments throughout her pregnancy.

Program Benefits

• You will receive the direct phone number of a nurse to call with any pregnancy related questions.
• If you are assessed as high risk, you will be assigned to a Specialty Case Management Nurse.
• Clinical assessments, risk stratification and patient history are managed through a single tool so any member of the care management team can speak knowledgeably to you about your condition.
• Free educational materials produced by the March of Dimes are mailed to all enrolled employees and include information about prenatal care, reducing risk factors, baby development, nutrition, and smoking cessation.
• After delivery, you are contacted for a post-partum depression screening.

The Pump Act

Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) require employers to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk, up to a year after birthing a child. The frequency and duration of breaks required by nursing employees will vary, and employers should be very flexible with work schedules.

Generally, nursing employees spend approximately 15 to 30 minutes every three to four hours expressing breast milk. As a result, employers may need to allow more than the customary breaks and time frames that are allowed under their current policies.

Employers are not required to compensate nonexempt employees for breaks taken for the purpose of expressing milk, unless otherwise required by federal or state law or municipal ordinance; exempt employees should never have their pay deducted for such breaks. Where employers already provide compensated breaks, an employee who uses that break time to express milk must be compensated in the same way that other employees are compensated for break time. If an employee is not relieved of all work duties while expressing, that time must be paid.

Employers must also provide a private place, other than a bathroom, where the employee can express breast milk. The private place must be shielded from view and free from intrusions from co-workers and the general public.