Behavioral Health Business December 17, 2025
Evernorth Health Services plans to triple its provider headcount in 2026 from its current workforce of 5,000 providers to around 15,000 across all 50 states.
Cigna (NYSE: CI) subsidiary Evernorth hit its 5,000 provider milestone in November – about a year and a half after it formed the Evernorth Behavioral Care Group in early 2024 with just 1,000 providers at the time. The initiative’s launch also aimed to connect patients to care more quickly – within 72 hours – rather than the industry average of 48 days.
Since then, through its partnership with virtual care provider Octave, Evernorth has designed a scalable practice infrastructure and recruited clinicians to strengthen its hybrid in-person and telehealth care model. The results have...
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