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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950159-24-000218"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CI"
cik: "0001739940"
company_name: "Cigna Group"
filed_at: "2024-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T03:35:49.496998+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cigna appoints Jamie Kates as Chief Accounting Officer effective July 1, 2024

## Summary
- Jamie Kates named Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer, effective July 1, 2024.
- Annual base salary of $400,000; 2024 EIP target at 50% of base (prorated).
- 2025 Long-Term Incentive target of $300,000; eligible for employee benefit plans.
- Ms. Kates, 44, is a CPA who joined Cigna in 2009 and most recently served as VP, Accounting since Oct 2021.
- She previously managed Evernorth Health Services accounting, compliance and consolidation functions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950159-24-000218
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CI
- cik: 0001739940
- company_name: Cigna Group
- filed_at: 2024-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739940/000095015924000218/0000950159-24-000218-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739940/000095015924000218/cigna8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950159-24-000218.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jamie Kates was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Cigna Group.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 14, 2024, The Cigna Group (the “Company” or “our”) appointed Jamie Kates as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, serving as the Company’s principal accounting officer, effective July 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739940/000095015924000218/0000950159-24-000218-index.htm

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