Private Medicare enrollment for 7 commercial payers

All but one of seven large commercial payers reported growth in their Medicare Advantage and other private Medicare membership in the third quarter of fiscal year 2019.

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Here’s how CVS Health-owned Aetna, Anthem, Centene, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth Group and WellCare Health Plans stacked up, according to recent financial documents:

Payers are listed in order of greatest year-over-year Medicare enrollment growth as of Sept. 30, 2019. Numbers exclude standalone drug plans.

Aetna: 2.3 million, up 31 percent since December 2018

Anthem: 1.2 million, up 21.3 percent year over year 

Humana: 12.4 million, up 18.2 percent year over year

Cigna: 1.6 million, up 7 percent year over year

UnitedHealth Group: 5.2 million, up 6.4 percent year over year

WellCare Health Plans: 563,000, up 3.5 percent year over year 

Centene: 404,500, down 3.1 percent year over year

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