Summer 2025 We present the Summer 2025 edition of our Health Insurer Financial Pulse! This edition of Pulse includes thereported annual statutory financial experiencefor health insurers through 2024,Premium DeficiencyReserves (PDR) trends, highlights fromPublic Companies’ Q2 2025 financial statements, and a summaryof recent health planMerger and Acquisition (M&A) activity and valuation trends. Our aim is to keep youabreast of key market trends and dynamics that impact health insurer financial results and profitability. Wehope you enjoy the newsletter and find it informative. Please look for our next edition in Fall of2025. 2024 statutory financials — Individual, Group, Medicare, and Medicaid marketsmargindeterioration The market-wide pre-tax margins decreased in 2024 to (-0.3%) and were negative for the first time in recentmemory with increased industry loss ratios in all lines of business compared to2023. 2022-2024 Premium Deficiency Reserves (PDR)increasesTotal amount held in PDRs more than doubled from 2022 ($2.2 billion) to 2024 ($4.4 billion), with anapproximately equal increase of around $1.1 billion each year. Non-Public Blues had the greatest change,tripling their total PDR amount, while public companies approximately doubled theirs and other companieshad the smallest proportional increase over the period. Q2 2025 large public companies financial performance challengescontinueWe reviewed large public companies’ profitability for their insured business and noted that reported profitmargins for Q2 2025 were 0.5% lower than Q2 2024 on average, with the reduction driven by Elevance andUnitedHealthcare increased loss ratios. Continuing profitability headwinds in 2025 remain achallenge. Market corner — modest M&A Activity and public company valuations continued to decline inthe first half of2025 Limited M&A activity was reported between health plans in the first half of 2025. Within the broader healthcare industry, payers and providers continue focusing on operational improvements through AI and growthof acquisitions in key therapeutical areas, which along with consolidation and vertical intregration could leadto greater activity in the M&A space going forward. Overall, market valuations and stock prices decreasedfor health insurers while the S&P grew over 10% in Q2 2025, including UnitedHealthcare Group which saw awell-publicized decline in its stock price in the secondquarter. IN THIS ISSUE 1 01Full-Year 2024 statutory results by market 122024 PDR trends 13Q2 2025 Large public companies’ financialperformance 14M&A corner and Q1-Q2 2025 market capitalization HEALTH INSURERS FINANCIALS BY MARKET We summarize the profitability trends of carriers with 2019-2024 annual reported statutory financialinformation. We also summarize enrollment and loss ratio trends in the Individual, Group, Medicare, andMedicaid markets. Overall, pre-tax margins decreased in 2024 to1-0.3%, with increased loss ratios in Group,Medicare, and Medicaid compared to2023. ALL MARKETS Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Profitmargin All markets pre-tax profitmarginPublic vs. Blues vs.Other Margins in 2024 decreased for Public, Non-Public Blues,and Other Health Carriers. Public companies decreasedfrom 3.2% to 1.5% to2023. Pre-tax profit margin (as % of premium) Non-Public Blues and Other Health Carriers reportednegative margins at (-1.9%) and (-2.6%),respectively. GROUP MARKET Public companiesNon-publicBluesOther health carriersAll health carriers PremiumsPMPM Group premiums PMPM increased in 2024, withaverage market premiums reaching $580 PMPM, anincrease of 6.3% from 2023. The increase is the lowestfor Non-Public Blues (+5.0%) and highest for PublicCompanies (+10.0%). Enrollment2 Public vs. Blue vs.Other Enrollment in the comprehensive fully insured Groupmarket continued to decline in 2024 decreasing by4.5% compared to2023. Lossratio Public vs. Blue vs.Other The 2024 reported loss ratio of 88.0% is an increase of1.7% relative to 2023. All carrier types saw increasesand overall increase was driven by Public Companies(2.1%) and Non-Public Blues (2.2%), while Other HealthCarriers’ increase was limited(0.2%). INDIVIDUAL MARKET Public companiesNon-publicBluesOther health carriersAll health carriers PremiumsPMPM3 Individual premiums PMPM were flat, overall, in2024 with reported average Individual marketpremiums of $555 PMPM, an increase of 0.1% from2023. Non-Public Blues experienced a decrease(-2.2%), while Public companies (3.9%) and OtherHealth Carriers (2.5%) sawincreases. Enrollment Overall enrollment increased an average of 27.1% in2024 relative to 2023 due to the continuation of theenhanced premium tax credits and shift of enrollmentfrom the Medicaid eligibility redetermination. PublicCompanies saw the largest increase at 39.7%, followedby Other Health Carriers (22.7%) and Non-PublicBlues(15.8%). Lossratio The reported overall loss ratio in 2024 increasedto 85.3%, a 0.9% increase from 2023. The