Sarasota Memorial Health Care reaches agreement with Cigna

More than five years after Sarasota Memorial stopped accepting plans from Cigna health insurance, the health care system has reached an agreement with the Connecticut-based insurer. 

As of Oct. 1, those with Cigna’s commercial health insurance plans will have access to Sarasota Memorial Health Care System’s acute-care hospitals in Sarasota and Venice, its outpatient and urgent care center network as well as First Physicians Group physicians and affiliated providers, according to a statement.

The Sarasota-based health care system, which handled nearly 1.88 million patient visits last year and had $1.88 billion in operating revenue in 2024, stopped accepting Cigna in April 2020 after the two organizations could not negotiate a contract.