Fortune and consulting firm Korn Ferry released their 2026 “World’s Most Admired Companies” ranking Jan. 21, featuring five U.S. health insurers. The publisher and firm start with 1,500 candidates before focusing on the highest-revenue companies. They then identify the “best-regarded…
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Dozens of health insurers have received Human Experience Pinnacle of Excellence awards from Press Ganey, an annual recognition of healthcare organizations for performance across experience, engagement, quality and safety metrics. Winners represent the top 5% of health plans nationwide based…
The United Health Foundation’s 2025 “America’s Health Rankings Annual Report,” published Jan. 8, presented a wave of optimistic health signals, but disparities persist. The organization analyzed 99 measures from 31 sources, relying on the most recent data, as of Oct.…
Enhanced ACA premium tax credits expired Dec. 31, with congressional efforts to extend them stalled and no resolution in sight. The enhanced subsidies, introduced under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, increased subsidy amounts and expanded marketplace eligibility to households…
Alabama insurers issued the highest amount of medical loss ratio rebates to consumers in 2024, according to KFF. Under the ACA, if an insurer in the individual market spends less than 80% of premium revenues on clinical services and quality…
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Delaware’s largest payer controls 93% of the state’s health insurance market, while Washington state’s largest insurer controls just 24%, according to KFF. The 2023 data was obtained from the “Health Coverage Portal TM,” a database maintained by Mark Farrah Associates. …
Kaiser Permanente’s Northern and Southern California health plans have been named the highest-quality commercial plans in the state by the California Center for Data Insights and Innovation. The center rates commercial health plans using a rating system on a 1…
Turquoise Health has detailed its first comprehensive payer price transparency scores in its 2025 impact report, evaluating machine-readable file quality across 97 payers. Ten key findings: 1. Turquoise Health now tracks 219 payer files monthly. The company has assigned transparency…
Kaiser Permanente is the largest insurer by enrollment in the fully insured large group market, UnitedHealth Group is the largest within the fully insured small group market, and Centene is the largest within the individual market, according to the Peterson-KFF…
UnitedHealth Group continues to be the largest health insurer in the U.S., with nearly 45 million members in 2025, according to the Peterson-KFF health system tracker. The data is from Mark Farrah Associates and includes enrollment across the individual market,…