Company: CI
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001739940-25-000015
Chunk: 104

Company: Cigna Group
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 104
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 and permissible non-audit services that arise during the calendar year that have not been pre-approved either specifically or generally, the GA presents an updated schedule reflecting the additional services for review and consideration for pre-approval by the Audit Committee. After the GA’s presentation of the schedules as described above and, if applicable, a discussion with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm regarding the potential effects of any permissible non-audit services related to internal control over financial reporting or permissible tax services on the independence of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, the Audit Committee will approve those audit, audit-related, and permissible non-audit services.

• The GA reports to the Audit Committee at least quarterly the full-year estimated fees for audit and non-audit services performed by the independent registered public accounting firm, including any fees that are expected to exceed pre-approved limits. The GA reports to the Audit Committee at least quarterly the projected ratio between the audit and audit-related and the non-audit fees of the independent registered public accounting firm.

Fees to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Audit Committee reviewed and approved all professional services rendered to The Cigna Group by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP consisting of the following:

|                    |     | 2024 |     |             |     | 2023 |     |             |
| Audit Fees         |     |      |     | $18,128,000 |     |      |     | $23,812,000 |
| Audit-Related Fees |     |      |     |  $6,439,000 |     |      |     |  $7,638,000 |
| Tax Fees           |     |      |     |    $227,000 |     |      |     |    $422,000 |
| All Other Fees     |     |      |     |    $170,000 |     |      |     |     $88,000 |
| TOTAL              |     |      |     | $24,964,000 |     |      |     | $31,960,000 |

Audit fees include the audit of our consolidated financial statements and the audit of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; the review of quarterly financial statements; the performance of statutory and other subsidiary-related financial statement audits; issuance of consents for registration statement filings; and issuance of comfort letters for debt offerings. Audit Fees for 2023 also include approximately $5 million in fees for carve-out financial statement audits