Company Intelligence

Top 25 Health Plans by Individual (Non-Group) Commercial Enrollment

Approximately 8.3 million people were covered under individual (non-group) commercial health insurance at the end of 2009, according to AIS’s Directory of Health Plans: 2010. The number of commercial health plan members designated as individual (not part of an employer group) is up 23.5% from 6.7 million a year ago. The directory reveals that 28% of health plans track their individual versus group membership, and this market represents 3.48% of total medical enrollment, 9.26% of commercial risk-based enrollment and 2.67% of the total U.S. population — all increases over the previous year. For the 131 plans reporting individual membership, this market represents 6.2% of total medical enrollment

Health Plan

Individual Enrollment

WellPoint, Inc.

2,173,000

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield

475,365

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

464,899

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas

382,416

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.

369,271

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

337,320

Humana Inc.

297,200

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

292,486

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

242,899

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

220,780

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

175,657

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa

166,434

Regence BlueShield

133,724

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

127,941

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

127,635

Coventry Health and Life Insurance Company

117,000

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

95,161

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island

94,696

Medical Mutual of Ohio

92,079

Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield

91,421

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon

88,059

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

82,561

First Medical Health Plan, Inc.

81,124

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield

77,309

Lifewise Health Plan of Washington

77,298

SOURCE: AIS’s Directory of Health Plans: 2010, available soon. For ordering information click here or call (800) 521-4323.
METHODOLOGY: Researched by AIS editorial staff via survey and publicly available sources. Survey included health insurers operating as of Jan. 1, 2010. Enrollment data are as of the fourth quarter of 2009 and include fully insured and ASO medical enrollment. Data do not include pharmacy or other specialty enrollment.